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PersonalNotesAssistant – Organize and Understand Your Thoughts with Local AI
PersonalNotesAssistant is an offline-capable, AI-powered agent that helps you store, summarize, retrieve, and reflect on your personal notes and voice memos — all processed locally and sent via Telegram. Built to run efficiently on a Raspberry Pi 5, this agent supports a variety of note-taking styles and acts as your private memory extension.
🧠 What It Can Do
Accept voice or text notes via Telegram
Transcribe audio messages into clean, structured text (using Whisper)
Automatically summarize or categorize notes with a local LLM
Answer questions based on your past notes
Retrieve relevant entries by topic, date, or keyword
Help you journal or reflect by asking follow-up questions
Work completely offline — no cloud or external APIs
🔧 How It Works
Capture Notes via Telegram
You send a voice message or text to your Telegram bot. The assistant supports both quick thoughts and long-form content.
Transcription with Whisper (Local)
If the input is a voice message, it is transcribed into text using Whisper running locally on your Raspberry Pi.
AI Summarization & Tagging
The transcribed or typed note is sent to LLaMA 3.2 via Ollama, which summarizes it, suggests tags, and stores it with metadata (e.g., timestamp, mood, theme).
Storage & Retrieval
Notes are stored in a local database (e.g., SQLite or JSON). You can later query the assistant with prompts like:
“What did I say about stress last week?”
“Summarize my ideas from this month.”
“Show notes tagged with 'travel'.”
Follow-Up & Reflection
The agent can optionally engage with reflective prompts to help you deepen your thoughts or gain insight from what you’ve recorded.
💡 Use Cases
Track personal growth, habits, or therapy progress
Create voice memos while walking or commuting
Maintain a structured journal without typing
Use as a second brain to help you remember and revisit important thoughts
🔐 Privacy by Default
Everything runs locally:
No notes are uploaded to cloud platforms
No audio is sent to third-party transcription services
No LLM processing happens outside your device
Ideal for privacy-minded users, psychologists, researchers, or digital minimalists who want AI assistance without surveillance.
⚙️ Technical Stack
Raspberry Pi 5: Low-power edge device
Whisper (local): For voice-to-text conversion
Ollama + LLaMA 3.2: For summarization, classification, and retrieval
Telegram Bot API: For input/output
Custom Database (e.g., JSON/SQLite): For storing and querying notes
🧪 Real-Life Use
This agent is actively used daily by the developer to log ideas, emotions, and plans. It has proven effective for lightweight journaling and context-aware memory assistance, even when offline.