@OpenTrawl

Tell your AI who you really are. Trawls all your messages and emails so your AI can use them. Local-first, open source, private-by-design. by @jjpcodes

 Rotterdam, NL
opentrawl.sh
Joined July 2026
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We're launching the alpha version of OpenTrawl today. Download the the app for MacOS, and start letting your (local) AI search your apps! Private by design. Nothing leaves your machine. Open source (MIT). Let us know what you think in the comments.
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Little demo video of how it works today. Real data from our founding engineer's archive, anonymized by Claude. Yes, it's that fast! opentrawl.sh
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@jjpcodesAug 8
after much clanking my first alpha of the @OpenTrawl mac app is ready for soft-launch. no website yet, the clankers didnt finish it on time its a cli to search all your apps locally (imessage/telegram/notes/calendar/whatsapp/etc). hook your AI up to it. github.com/opentrawl/opentra…

Release OpenTrawl Alpha 0.1.3 · opentrawl/opentrawl

OpenTrawl 0.1.3

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Our agents are hard at work at cutting our first alpha release! .... and it's not always getting it right the first time 🙉
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that's more like it!
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@jjpcodesJul 14
Replying to @OpenTrawl
@OpenTrawl can now index all your photos, along with their locations; OCR all their text, and get a model to write a textual description of what's in the image. Presentation layer is very rough, and the classification needs improvement. But it works!
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The OpenTrawl MacOS app is coming together. Search all your data locally, and hook up your AI so it knows who you *really* are. (mcp and CLI). Private by design: nothing leaves your machine unless you want it to. OpenSource (MIT). Follow this account to stay updated!
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@jjpcodesJul 10
Calling it now, 5.6 Sol can do UI work. this model can cook. took some steering but we are making progress. hard at work on the @OpenTrawl MacOS app, entire history of you, searchable, local, open source, hackable.
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Sneak preview of the upcoming OpenTrawl app for MacOS. Design is in the very early stages, development only started earlier today. Your life, your data, your history - locally on your machine.
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Introducing OpenTrawl. Your entire digital life, crawled, locally. Email, iMessage, Telegram, Whatsapp, Photos, Calendar, and more. Let your AI understand your story. This video shows how we crawl photos:
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Launching soon. Open source, MIT. Drop a star on github.com/opentrawl/opentra… or follow this account to stay in the loop. More demo videos coming soon!

GitHub - opentrawl/opentrawl: Local-first crawlers for your digital life. One CLI, one Mac app,...

Local-first crawlers for your digital life. One CLI, one Mac app, agent-searchable archives. - opentrawl/opentrawl

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@jjpcodesJul 7
I'm launching a new project soon - @OpenTrawl ! Tell your AI who you really are. Take the apps already installed on your Mac, trawl them, and feed them to your AI. Local-first, private by design, open source. Launch video coming soon!
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