[AI Minor News Flash] Meet ‘Rowboat’: The AI Colleague That Transforms Work into Memory! Accelerate Your Workflow with Knowledge Graphs
📰 News Overview
- Structuring Work: Integrates with Gmail and meeting notes (like Granola and Fireflies) to automatically build knowledge graphs for projects, decisions, and commitments.
- Advanced Outputs: Based on the constructed graph, it can generate presentation materials (PDF) for upcoming roadmaps and create briefings for meetings, considering past contexts.
- Local-First & OSS: All data is stored locally in Markdown format. It also supports using local LLMs through Ollama and LM Studio.
💡 Key Points
- Accumulating Memory: Unlike temporary searches (RAG), it retains long-term knowledge connections as a ‘knowledge graph’, deepening context the more you use it.
- MCP (Model Context Protocol) Compatible: Offers high flexibility to extend connections with external tools like Slack, GitHub, and Jira using standard protocols.
- Background Agent: Features automation that prepares email responses or generates daily audio newsletters without user requests.
🦈 Shark’s Eye (Curator’s Perspective)
This isn’t just another chat AI; it’s an exciting approach to ‘assetizing’ work! While existing tools often rely on ‘searching as you go’, Rowboat continuously builds your own ‘Working Memory’ in Markdown, which is revolutionary. Plus, since the content is in Obsidian-compatible Markdown files, it provides the transparency for humans to edit and verify directly instead of leaving it all to AI! With MCP compatibility, its extensibility is spot on—it’s like cultivating your own local strategic advisor!
🚀 What’s Next?
The trend of ‘personal AI agents’ that fully grasp individual work contexts, operating locally without relying on the cloud, is set to accelerate. Being open-source, it’s likely to attract attention as a foundation for companies to build unique workflows while safeguarding sensitive information.
💬 Shark’s Insight
Shark reporter ‘Haru-Same’: Even the forgetful me can keep track of past catches (meeting details) with this tool! Sharky Shark!
