IMO comments so far seem to be not seeing the forest for the trees -- I can imagine incredible value for myself in a browser that hooks into a local LLM, writes everything it sees to a local timestamped database (oversimplification), parses and summarizes everything you interact with (again, oversimplification -- this would be tunable and scriptable), exposes Puppeteer-like functionality that is both scriptable via code and prompt-to-generate-code, helps you map shit out, remember stuff, find forgotten things that are "on the tip of your [digital] tongue", learn what you're interested in (again, local), help proactively filter ads, spam, phishing, bullshit you don't want to see, etc, can be wound up and let go to tackle internet tasks autonomously for (and WITH) you (oversimplification), on and on and on.

Bookmarks don't cut it anymore when you've got 25 years of them saved.

Falling down deep rabbit holes because you landed on an attention-desperate website to check one single thing and immediately got distracted can be reduced by running a bodyguard bot to filter junk out. Those sites create deafening noise that you can squash by telling the bot to just let you know when somebody replies to your comment with something of substance that you might actually want to read.

If it truly works, I can imagine the digital equivalent of a personal assistant + tour manager + doorman + bodyguard + housekeeper + mechanic + etc, that could all be turned off and on with a switch.

Given that the browser is our main portal to the chaos that is internet in 2025, this is not a bad idea! Really depends on the execution, but yeah.. I'm very curious to see how this project (and projects like it) go.

Thank you so much for your honest feedback. I 100% agree - this is spot on! This is exactly the vision we had.

We spend 90%+ of our time in browsers, yet they're still basically dumb windows. Having an AI assistant that remembers what you visited, clips important articles (remember Evernote web clipper?), saves highlights and makes everything semantically searchable - all running locally - would be game-changing.

Everything stays in a local PostgresDB - your history, highlights, sessions. You can ask "what was that pricing comparison from last month?" or "find my highlights about browser automation" and it just works. Plus built-in self-control features to block distracting sites when you need to focus.

Beyond search and memory, the browser can actually help you work. AI that intelligently groups your tabs ("these 15 are all Chromium research"), automation for grunt work ("compare 2TB hard drive prices across these sites"), or even "summarize all new posts in my Discord servers" - all handled locally. The browser should help us manage internet chaos, not add to it.

Would love to hear what specific workflows are painful for you!

This is basically what Microsoft wants to do with Recall and they got slammed for it. Which drives me nuts because it's the only feature from the recent AI hype wave that excites me because it's the only thing so far that sounds like it will actually make my life better. But then I thought about it a bit more and I realized that what I really want is not AI, I just want my computer to have a detailed local history and search functionality.

My computer should remember everything I did on it, period. It should remember every website I visited, exactly how far down I scrolled on each page, every thought I typed and subsequently deleted before posting... And it should have total recall! I should be able to rewind back to any point in time and track exactly what happened, because it's a computer. I already have a lossy memory of stuff that happened yesterday and that's inside my head. The whole point of having my computer remember stuff for me is that it's supposed to do it better than me.

And I want the search to be deterministic. I want to be able to input precise timestamps and include boolean operators. Yes, it would be helpful to have fuzzy matches, recommendations and a natural language processing layer too, but Lucene et al already did that acceptably well for local datasets 20+ years ago. It's great we have a common corpus, but I don't care about getting tokenized prose from the corpus, I care about the stuff I did on my own computer!

From my perspective LLMs don't bring much value on the personalized search front. The way I understand it, the nature of their encoding makes it impossible to get back the data you were actually looking for unless that data was also stored and indexed the traditional way, in which case you could have just skipped the layer of indirection and queried the source data in the first place.

I am also curious to see how all of this develops. I get a sense that the current trend of injecting LLMs everywhere is a temporary stop-gap measure used to give people the illusion of a computer that knows everything because researchers haven't yet figured out how to actually index "everything" in a performant way. But for the use case of personalized search, the computer doesn't actually need to know "everything", it only needs to know about text that was visible on-screen, plus a bit of metadata (time period, cursor position, clipboard, URL etc). If we currently still need an LLM to index that because snapshotting the actual text and throwing it into a traditional index requires too much disk space, okay, but then what's next? Because just being able to have a vague conversation about a thing I kindasorta maybe was doing yesterday is not it. Total recall is it.

This is an amazing vision. I want my browser to remind me if I lose focus, and to analyze and show me what I've been doing so I can learn from myself. Self-reflection is powerful here.

For a long time I kicked around the idea of a browser extension that archives the full text of any long webpages you spend more than 30 seconds on, for full text indexing and search.

This would be that, but even better.

my forest is this - "new LLM-based native ad-blocker"... this forest is so big my brain hurts of even thinking about it. (sarcasm sorry)

Everything you said sounds great, other than the fact the first half of it is generic surveillance dystopia. I had hoped we’d be a more unique dystopia, but it appears we’ll have to settle for run of the mill.

How it all started:

“Bookmarks and shit don’t cut it anymore”.

Tsk tsk.

I’ll just leave this here:

https://youtu.be/kGYwdVt3rhI