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AI Second Brain — mittalsonal

AI Second Brain is a personal knowledge assistant for storing notes and documents, searching them semantically, and answering questions with retrieval-augmented generation. It supports PDF, DOCX and TXT uploads, summaries, and a general-knowledge fallback that indicates when an answer is not from the user's notes.

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Practical overview

When it fits

Use it when answers should draw on a personal collection of saved notes or supported documents, or when you want a local development project to examine for a personal RAG workspace.

Who it is for

  • People who want to search and question a collection of personal notes or documents.
  • Developers exploring a self-hosted RAG application with a web frontend, API backend, and database.

Documented uses

  • Find relevant material across notes using meaning-based search.
  • Ask questions about saved notes and PDF, DOCX or TXT documents.
  • Summarize notes or documents and submit multiple questions in one query.
Before you choose

Requirements & limits

The project is available as a public GitHub repository, with frontend and backend local setup commands in its README. Authentication and separate knowledge bases are described as future improvements.

  • Retrieval uses Sentence Transformers embeddings and cosine similarity to select relevant stored material.
  • The assistant can fall back to general knowledge and signals when the answer is not from personal notes.
  • The README lists PDF, DOCX and TXT as supported upload formats.
  • The repository does not specify a license, so its public visibility does not establish reuse rights.

Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.

Source-based practical guide

Start the frontend and backend locally

Follow the repository's documented commands to install dependencies and start the frontend and backend development servers.

Before you start

  • The AI Second Brain GitHub repository
  • Node.js and npm for the frontend
  • Python and pip for the backend

Steps

  1. Clone the repository with the command below.

    Documented command
    git clone https://github.com/mittalsonal/AI-Second-Brain.git

  2. Enter the project directory with cd ai-second-brain.

  3. In frontend, run the command below and then the command below.

    Documented command
    npm install
    Documented command
    npm run dev

  4. In backend, run the command below and then uvicorn app.main:app --reload.

    Documented command
    pip install -r requirements.txt

Expected outcome

The documented frontend and backend development server commands have been run locally.

Guide limitations

  • These setup instructions do not establish production deployment or public availability.
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18 October 2026
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