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Alex MacCaw

Reflect AI Search - Search and chat with your notes using AI

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Reflect has implemented a new advanced search with the help of AI. It allows you to search your notes semantically without needing the exact words. You can chat with your own notes like a personal assistant, and use filters to narrow down the information.

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Alex MacCaw
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When we began working on Reflect more than two years ago, I had no idea that AI would play such a significant role in Reflect, or in all our futures for that matter. Today, we are releasing AI search capabilities within Reflect. This includes advanced search, semantic search, and chat with search results. If you're not familiar with Reflect, we're a note-taking app that focuses on beautiful UX and simplicity. At this point, we have over 3,400 paying customers. This release is, quite honestly, the most substantial since we first launched Reflect. It's a tremendous breakthrough because you can now retrieve information quickly from your notes and summarize it with AI. For instance, you can ask the AI to summarize everything you have written over the last week, or to compile entries related to your journaling topics or a specific category. You can request the AI to list all your friends who reside in a particular city or to bring up links related to specific research you are conducting. It is one of the most introspective and powerful tools I have ever encountered. And I'm glad to get it in more people's hands.
Eugene Yarovoii
@maccaw What an incredible launch! Can't wait to explore the project in more detail. Wishing you success on your journey! Already followed your team on Twitter.
Sergei Anosov
Wow, great work! This product truly seems like it holds immense potential.
Ryan Hoover
I figured you were working on something like this, @maccaw. :) How do you manage PII or other sensitive information shared in these notes? I know some have a fear that external LLMs will store and even train their models with info that shouldn't be public.
Eric Brownrout
Congrats on the launch @maccaw and team! Huge Reflect fan, and also curious to hear how you all think about sensitive data with this launch.
Alex MacCaw
Maker
@rrhoover good question. It took us a while to figure out how to design these features while still respecting our privacy and encryption obligations, but we figured it out. Personally, when OpenAI state in their terms that they don't use any of the data to train the LLM or store any of the data long term, that's good enough for me. But I know that not everyone views it that way. When we designed this, we needed to be extremely careful about the implications here. Many people use Reflect because we have such emphasis on end-to-end encryption and security. The line in the sand that we've drawn is that we won't do anything proactively. We won't, for example, proactively send out your data to index it. All of the embeddings happen locally. All the search happens locally. If anyone is uncomfortable with the AI features, if they don't use them, then there's no security or privacy implications. No data will be shared externally and all your data will be end to encrypted. So ultimately the choice is in our users hands. If they decide to use the AI features, they know some of their data will be shared with OpenAI. But if they decide not to use the AI features, then they know that none of the data will be shared with anyone.
Ryan Hoover
@maccaw I hear you! Portfolio plug (b/c that's my duty, right?): Commonbase is an infra layer to obfuscate PII like social security numbers, email addresses, etc. from being sent to external LLMs.
Jackson Foster
@maccaw @rrhoover congrats on the launch @maccaw! In celebration, a quick limerick: In a world where data's a lure, And breaches are awful for sure. a note summarizer, could make you quite wiser, while ensuring your secrets secure.
Jordan Moore
Easily the biggest life upgrade available in software. I've been using Reflect for about 6 months now and, unlike most note-taking apps, it's anti-fragile in that it gets better as you put more stuff into it. The networked notes mean that I don't have to think about organisation - Reflect spots similar notes and the incoming backlinks help link ideas together - now the AI search is another way of complementing the idea of capturing everything, then using the software to help make sense of things, find connections, summarise etc. I honestly can't say enough good things about Reflect and what Alex & co are making.
The best note-taking app just got a lot better. I've been using Reflect for several years and this upgrade really does some incredibly smart things with AI. Ask questions of your notes. Summarize and go deeper with your writing. Capture notes from anywhere with the best AI voice transcription available. Everything is also insanely fast. As soon as you open Reflect on desktop or mobile it is ready to capture anything you want to throw at it. Hats off to @maccaw for building such a beautiful piece of software.
Eric Anderson
Reflect is a killer notes app for me because of 1 specific thing: It's insanely simple (like Apple Notes), but under the hood is a lot of power. This release further adds more of that power. I use Reflect for personal notes in the same way Id use Apple Notes, but I also use a separate second graph for my rough work notes. Switching between graphs is instant (unlike Notion or other tools) and the navigating notes is super fast with search, now it seems even faster and more accurate! Great work Alex and team. Building a notes app is usually a bad idea, given how many good free ones there are out there and how crowded the space is. But you managed to pull it off. I'd be very sad if this product disappeared and I had to go back to one of the other existing apps.
Cristina Bunea
So excited about this launch, congrats Reflect team! Can't wait to try it more. Something I've noticed: prompted it the "What did I do last week" question, but the response included things I hadn't checked off my to-do list template yet. It'd be great if it could tell those apart.. Or am I missing something?
Piao
Congrats!! My notes are too many and too disorganized, often making them hard to find. Finally, I can have a conversation with my 'second brain'!!!
Ashish Hegade
Reflect is a software life upgrade that surpasses traditional note-taking apps. In six months of use, its anti-fragile design shines as it improves with more input. The networked notes and AI search simplify organization and enhance idea connections. Kudos to Alex & co for creating a standout tool in Reflect.
Phil Freo
One of the things I love about Reflect is that it’s E2E encrypted. How does search work regarding this?
Alex MacCaw
Maker
@philfreo It works the same as our other AI features. If you don't use it, then the security implications are the same as before. Everything is end-to-end encrypted and nothing is shared. If you do use it, then your search results will be shared with OpenAI. There's more information here: https://reflect.academy/artifici...
Simon Summermatter
It's awesome. I use it everyday. It is frictionless to store your thoughts. Retrieving it later is fast and simple. In the meantime my thoughts are end-to-end encrypted and in sync on my devices and the web-ui. The new AI Search is another important step on their fast journey.
Vedran Rasic
@maccaw excellent work! 🧋 Will you have to charge extra for this add on? Are you utilizing OpenAI? Happy customer 🙌
Alex MacCaw
Maker
@vedranrasic No, it's all included. Yes, we're using OpenAI/GPT4-turbo.
Delowar Hossen
Congratulations
Caitlin_Jiang
Congrats on your AI product launch! Can't wait to give it a try.
Kyle Conarro
This is awesome, congrats on the launch. Now going to try it out on my two years of notes 🔮
Sarbeen Tahir
Good luck
Ferruccio Balestreri
I'm still hostage of the Roam Research believer plan as I already paid for 3 more years and can't get myself to justify switching over just yet.. But every time I see updates from the Reflect team I feel like this team is building the winning product. Congrats Alex and team for this launch - and I'll be becoming a customer soon 😂
Tanjir Rahman
What an incredible evolution! Reflect's integration of AI search not only enhances efficiency but adds a layer of introspection. The ability to summarize and retrieve information with such depth is truly transformative. Can't wait to explore this powerful tool!
Rami
I love the logo!
PRIYANKA MANDAL
congratulations on the successful launch of your AI search product! 🚀🎉
Kevin Martin
damn. It keeps getting better…