henrydaum/second-brain
Second Brain is a desktop application that acts as a personal knowledge base, using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), multimodal AI models, and a hybrid lexical/semantic search algorithm to interact with local text files and images.
This desktop application helps you organize and understand all your local files, acting as a personal knowledge base. It ingests various file types like text, images, audio, and tabular data from your specified directories. The system then allows you to ask natural-language questions about your entire collection and receive grounded answers with source citations, making it easy for researchers, analysts, or anyone managing a lot of personal documents.
432 stars.
Use this if you need to quickly find information across a vast collection of local documents, images, and other files by simply asking natural-language questions, without manually sorting or tagging.
Not ideal if your primary need is collaborative document editing, cloud-based storage, or managing highly sensitive information that cannot be processed locally.
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432
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51
Language
Python
License
Apache-2.0
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Last pushed
Jan 23, 2026
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