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Knowledge

Knowledge is a desktop knowledge-management application that organizes websites, documents, and files into projects and sources for searching, graph exploration, and conversations with large language models. Its built-in Chromium browser can summarize web content, extract topics, and turn pages into notes.

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Practical overview

When it fits

Use Knowledge when you want a desktop workspace that combines gathering web material with organizing, searching, and chatting about saved sources.

Who it is for

  • Researchers and learners collecting web pages and documents around topics or projects.
  • People who want to ask questions about saved sources and explore relationships among collected information.

Documented uses

  • Save websites, documents, and files as project sources.
  • Search and explore collected material, including through a knowledge graph.
  • Chat with projects and sources using large language models.
  • Use the built-in browser to summarize pages, extract topics, and create notes from web content.
Before you choose

Requirements & limits

  • The repository README states that Knowledge is no longer being developed.
  • The project is open source under the Apache-2.0 license and is written in TypeScript.

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

Summarize and save web content with the built-in browser

Use Knowledge’s built-in Chromium browser to turn web content into a note or summary.

Before you start

  • Knowledge application with its built-in Chromium browser.

Steps

  1. Open a web page in the built-in Chromium browser.

  2. Right-click the web content.

  3. Choose an available action to summarize it, extract topics, or turn it into a Note.

Expected outcome

The selected web content is summarized, its topics are extracted, or it is turned into a Note, depending on the chosen action.

Guide limitations

  • Knowledge is no longer being developed.
  • The README does not specify which page elements are supported or how the resulting notes are organized.
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Source-based practical guide

Chat with projects and sources

Ask questions and explore material in Knowledge Projects and Sources using the Chat feature.

Before you start

  • A Knowledge application with Projects and Sources available.
  • The Chat feature, which uses large language models.

Steps

  1. Open the Chat feature.

  2. Choose or engage with a Project or Source.

  3. Ask a question or explore a concept in the conversation.

Expected outcome

A conversation with a Project or Source helps explore its material.

Guide limitations

  • Knowledge is no longer being developed.
Documentation 1 ↗
Evidence and transparency

Sources & review

Official repository ↗
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12 October 2026
Original website title
RobRoyce/knowledge · Official homepage title · retained in its source language
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