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What I Built I built SecondMind — a local-first second brain that runs on your own laptop. The idea came from building something useful for a friend who often has to repeatedly remember and search through personal notes, study plans, preferences, and project context. Instead of relying on a cloud AI service that sends everything to a remote server, SecondMind stores memories locally and uses a local open-weight model to understand conversations and retrieve relevant information when needed. You can talk to it normally, and it can remember useful information, recall relevant memories later, and

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