24Apr22 | Search anything you do

Today I’d just chime in to demo the latest AI Assistant beta at Hyperspaces – I’ve been talking to many people lately, and with the advent of AI it seems that we now have copilots for all sorts of tasks; a copilot to chat with your company data, a copilot to chat with your knowledge base, a copilot to chat with your code base, etc.

It’s getting more and more evident that we need a copilot that can enable chatting with personal data. In this post I discussed how there are apps for searching anything you have known, and apps for searching anything you have seen, but still there’s nothing that can enable searching for anything you have done. In later posts I discussed how this search practice fits into life-logging.

Life-logging is a core function of a comprehensive journaling experience. If I can journal about my life by writing some notes in an app, and then track some aspects about my life using a few more apps, then neither of these journals are ever going to be complete. So subsequently a personal AI Assistant wouldn’t ever be able to help me, because its knowledge about me will always lack context. A personal AI needs full context to be of utmost help, which we aspire to do.

Now life activity turns out to be the final missing piece for this context. If we can mix in a few auto-tracked life activity items, the result would be something like this:

On another note, in this post I discussed that we were working on 2 new functions (which are not going to be available in the Hyperspaces Alpha Release): Assistant & Insights. Last August, we initially planned for the Insights View to be a dynamic dashboard, but now that AI can even do data analysis using prompts(!), we’re looking to bake Assistant & Insights into the same search bar, which we believe is going to be of utility for anyone interested in tracking their lives. Such that not only you would be able to ask about anything from your life timeline, but you can also visualize data from any time range how you see fit, using pure english. No technical jargon, no learning curve, no clunky UI, just a simple search bar.

We believe Search is going to be one of the best value-added functions of the app, and by far the most demanded feature based on our conversations – So we revamped our thinking about it and refactored things such that it can eventually include:

We are looking forward to do an alpha release by end of May, and a beta release 2-3 weeks later. Till then, I appreciate any advice or feedback in DMs or Email.