Prashant

Search is MUCH better now.

Way faster, way smarter.

It searches as you type, and it can directly answer the question too.

Still need to iron some kinks, but dare I say; it is starting to feel like google for your personal knowledge base.

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Yes, the cost of existing software going to 0 due to AI is interesting.

What’s more interesting is the second and third order effects of this.

What will be the Uber of the AI era?

Quillow’s note taking app is just the stepping stone to what we’re really building.

AI agents that really know you.

The notes / diary give the agents the context they need.

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One of the things I love using Quillow for is chucking call notes / transcripts in there.

Whenever I'm designing a new feature, it's so useful to have ultra accurate search and be able to ask questions to the AI that is grounded in all these call notes.

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Edith is a reference to the OP AI glasses tony stark left for Spider-Man in far from home.

Back on Bluesky, out of the cave.

Edith is the new AI agent on top of Quillow.

You can ask Edith take notes for you- it can even read web links and watch YouTube.

You can ask questions about your notes or simply chat with it.

On WhatsApp as well as web.

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Knowledge is not enough . Understanding is needed.

Knowledge is just knowing facts. Understanding is the synthesis of knowledge and connecting the dots.

This is what we need on an AI knowledge base.

And this is what we’re building with Quillow.

Sprinting through the fog with a half-broken compass.

YT summaries working now- it's on a cool new whatsapp agent.

Will be integrated to Quillow core so that it's not just your notes but also content you come across that is indexed in your knowledge base.

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Day 41.

Back to the swing of things after taking a couple of days off with family.

Smashed out some bug fixes to begin. The onboarding should be smoother now. Also mapped out the next 2 months to figure out where to focus energies.

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Day 30

Chilled and squashed some bugs.

Also, played with Claude computer use as a fun side adventure. Pretty expensive and fails at simple things, but that’s also how gpt-2 was.

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Day 29

Merry Christmas! 🎄

New onboarding deployed. :)

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+1

Go faster or go further?

This is the choice we as engineers and founders have after AI coding like cursor has 10x'd us.

Do we get to the existing bar 10x faster. Or do we raise the bar of the product by 10x.

1 puts the entire value on distribution. 2 puts some of the value still on the product.

Oh, nice! 👋 yeah a new generation of note taking systems are definitely needed!

Day 24

Trying to revive an old project that did things like YT summaries and integrate that directly into Quillow.

Looks like youtube has really cracked down on scrapers.

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Day 23

Been head down with some users, late nights coding, falling sick, and figuring out next steps for Quillow.

Today, I've been working on yet another version of onboarding.

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Day 16

Well so OpenAI is down...

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Day 15

Clippy 2.0 and long term memory are closely related.

Still working on this. Code is quite delicate atm.

It feels like jenga.

If my brain starts thinking of anything else now, feel like Jenga would collapse lol.

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Day 14

Experimenting with clippy 2.0.

Working on it to have context across all notes.

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Day 13

Working on an assistant right on the editor itself to provide guidance.

It's a bit of an experiment 🫢 🫢.

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Day 10

Did coolest thing with meta ray bans- “Hey meta take a picture (of a diagrams) and send to Quillow”

A user was able to link Quillow SMS with the new iPhone action button! They sent me this vid.

Trialing new onboarding.

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Build first but not take too long for prototype so can test with real users early.

Day 9 already, wow.

New onboarding should be out tomorrow! The blank page of death will be abolished.

Also spoke to a lot of users today and wrote down (on Quillow of course) a ton of niggles.

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A framing I find useful is to think of Quillow-dot-Me as a personal data lake.

Suggestions welcome

Looks pretty good, thanks!

Day 8.

Onboarding sucks atm. Will make it better.

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Yeah makes a lot of sense for a social app! You could go with a smaller lightweight open source model too as it’s a narrower use case.

That actually sounds like a pretty great use case for your app. Currently just openai - the structured output in the API makes it pretty good for indexing.