Hi,
does anyone have experience with a similar setup with the robot, skills and obsidian that keeps data local ? There are more and more reports of security issues this is why I would like to do all of this local only. Thanks, Wout
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That would be highly desirable!
On a recent Macbreak Weekly episode, there was some discussion of using ollama and an app called “Apfel” (I think?), it is made by an Austrian company so uses the German for apple. It was available only for macOS Tahoe.
Whether that does what Cowork does, I don’t know. I haven’t tried it as I don’t have macOS Tahoe on my main computer - although when I launched my home computer today, a dialog flashed up “screen contrast increased” and (hooray!) the screen is readable now.
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Thank you I will Digg into that one.
Goose is a free, open source, local alternative to Cowork which can run cloud LLM models or can run local LLM models via Ollama.
It is very well-done and has a pretty strong user base. The software was originally developed for internal use by Block/Square and then they open-sourced it.
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If anyone does try these out, it would be great to see feedback here!
Cheers
I’ve tried Apfel and it’s too underpowered and limited to be a “robot assistant” - it’s the built in AI in the macOS, which you’ve probably discovered the limitations of already. But, I’d say it could be great as a step in a script or something like that.
In this post, a patent attorney outlines workstation requirements for building a local model AI for use in drafting patent claims. It does seem to involve a significant amount of prompt engineering.
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