RawDrop 0.3.7
RawDrop is a macOS menu bar app that feeds and compiles a personal, Karpathy-style LLM knowledge base living in Obsidian. Drop anything into Knowledge/raw/, then hit Compile to turn new sources into wiki concept articles with a local (or cloud) Ollama model.
Install
- Download RawDrop-0.3.7.dmg below.
- Open it and drag RawDrop to Applications.
- Launch it — it lives in the menu bar (no Dock icon).
Universal binary (Apple Silicon + Intel), signed and notarized by Apple — no Gatekeeper warnings. Requires macOS 14+. Ollama is needed for the Compile step.
Highlights
- Menu bar popover: drop zone, ⌘V capture, one Compile button, capture list, Settings / Quit
- Settings: vault path, Local / Cloud Ollama, API key (Keychain), model dropdown with recommended models, connectivity test, Open at Login, System / Light / Dark theme
- HTML extraction, PDF text (PDFKit), image paste as PNG, URL → markdown
- Lean wiki YAML, origin provenance, and hybrid recompile merge that preserves your
## Humanedits
See the CHANGELOG for full details.