Local First on Baldarn's

A second brain to really delegate to AI assistants

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Picking up where I left off yesterday on the second brain.

An AI secretary

Emails, chats, documents, transactions: we have information scattered everywhere. The idea of collecting it locally and making it available to an AI secretary gets me really excited.

I’m thinking of an assistant that reminds me of a message I never replied to, or asks me whether I’ve paid a bill.

I need a second brain, but I want my data kept local

Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I feel the need for a second brain.

Scattered information

Messages, emails, documents: all the information I currently keep scattered across different apps. Every time I look for something, I have to remember where I wrote it down, or who sent it to me.

I never really got the hang of Notion or Obsidian. Now I’m trying out another tool to collect my data locally and make it searchable: text, voice messages, PDFs. Just being able to search all of it in one place is really appealing to me.

Local home automation, cloud AI: I want to be in control

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Yesterday I got my hands on the air conditioning units.

The AC units, locally

The goal was to run them locally with Home Assistant. Four wires, a connector and a system I keep at home, without depending on the manufacturer’s service.

It’s something I care a lot about: owning my devices, under my control. If the manufacturer shuts down its service tomorrow, I can still turn on my air conditioner.

A bracelet that listens to everything: I'd want one, but only running locally

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A bracelet that listens to what I say, transcribes it and prepares a summary for me. Would I want one? Yes. But on one condition.

The usefulness

I can see how useful it would be. I say I need to do something tomorrow and it offers to put it in my calendar. I already use automatic meeting summaries in Meet, and devices like Omi are heading in this direction. Then there are glasses and all the other gadgets on the way.