Copy anything → popup appears on desktop → choose to keep → AI organizes it into a knowledge base
You decide what to keep. AI makes sense of it.
Privacy first — all data stored in local SQLite database.
| Content Capture | Knowledge Base |
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| Knowledge Graph | Deep Insights |
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- A popup appears on your desktop when you copy something (auto-dismisses after 10 seconds)
- Only content you actively choose to keep gets saved — no silent hoarding
- Supports text, images, and URLs with automatic source app detection
- Fetches full article content from WeChat, X/Twitter, and other URLs
⌘⇧Cglobal shortcut to manually trigger the capture window
- Filter by type (text / image / link) and time range
- Global search across content and knowledge base
- Calendar timeline view — browse history by day
- One-click export to Markdown
- AI automatically compiles captured content into Wiki pages (concepts, entities, topics)
- Knowledge graph visualization — see how ideas connect
- Ask sidebar — ask questions about your knowledge base, AI answers based on your content
- Auto-detect orphaned pages, broken links, and structural issues
- One-click AI weekly report summarizing captured content
- Attention analysis — 7-dimension insights into your information habits:
- At a Glance / Subconscious / Graveyard / Blind Spots / Hot Topics / Heatmap / Action Items
- Like or dismiss report items — AI learns your preferences
- Supports Anthropic (Claude) / OpenAI / Google Gemini
- API Key or OAuth login — two ways to connect
- Choose different models for each provider
- System tray — closing the window keeps the app running
⌘⇧Yglobal shortcut to show the main window- Dark / Light / System theme
- MCP protocol integration — connect to Claude Desktop
- macOS (Apple Silicon): download
OpenWiki_X.Y.Z_aarch64.dmg - macOS (Intel): download
OpenWiki_X.Y.Z_x64.dmg
The app is not signed with an Apple Developer certificate, so macOS will block it. Follow these steps:
- Open the
.dmgand drag OpenWiki into the Applications folder - Open Terminal and run
xattr -cr /Applications/OpenWiki.appto allow the app to run - Launch the app and click "Allow" in the authorization prompt
- Go to Settings → AI to configure your AI provider
These features require additional tools. Other features work without them:
| Feature | Requires | Install |
|---|---|---|
| YouTube subtitle extraction | yt-dlp + Node.js | pip3 install yt-dlp + nodejs.org |
- Node.js 18+
- Rust (latest stable)
- macOS
- Xcode Command Line Tools (
xcode-select --install)
# Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/kdsz001/OpenWiki.git
cd OpenWiki
# Install dependencies
npm install
# Development mode
npm run tauri dev
# Build the app
npm run tauri buildContributions welcome! Read CONTRIBUTING.md for development workflow and guidelines.
- Andrej Karpathy — his LLM Wiki idea inspired the knowledge base design
- yt-dlp — YouTube subtitle extraction
Thanks to everyone who helped spread the word:
Ray — @BitcoinRui



