Beyond simple storage

[Joxsen]

My colleague recently showed me how AI helped him find specific information inside a huge collection of documents, and I thought that could be useful at home too. I have manuals, receipts, saved articles, and various notes. Where should I look to learn how an AI assistant can actually work with personal documents rather than just store them?

[Barry]

I ran into something similar when helping a colleague sort through years of work files. He showed me how AI could locate a detail buried in a large document collection, and it made me wonder how well that works with manuals, receipts and saved articles at home. I found Scott Paterson's FUTR vision  on building an AI app around personal data helpful because it looks at the idea beyond simple file storage.

[Joxsen]

Thanks for sharing this. I had a similar lightbulb moment while helping a friend organize old project documents. We tested an AI search tool and it found a tiny detail buried in a report almost instantly, which made me wonder how useful the same idea could be for manuals, receipts, notes, and saved articles at home. The Scott Paterson FUTR piece was interesting for that reason. I liked that it treats personal data as something AI could actually make useful, rather than just another pile of files.