Knovum v0.0.3: Building a Local-First Desktop AI Canvas with Tauri 2, Vue 3, and Rust

Description and use

<p>Like many developers and researchers, I've spent the past two years experimenting with local LLMs (via Ollama) and local RAG. But existing desktop frontends repeatedly hit two frustrating walls:</p> <ol> <li> <strong>The 1D Chat Trap</strong>: Linear chat streams work well for simple Q&A, but break down during deep research synthesis. Earlier reasoning turns scroll off the top, and you cannot visually compare multiple document excerpts side-by-side.</li> <li> <strong>The Electron Memory Tax</strong>: Most desktop AI wrappers idle at 700MB–1GB RAM before you even load model weights into

Problem

<p>Like many developers and researchers, I've spent the past two years experimenting with local LLMs (via Ollama) and local RAG. But existing desktop frontends repeatedly hit two frustrating walls:</p> <ol> <li> <strong>The 1D Chat Trap</strong>: Linear chat streams work well for simple Q&A, but break down during deep research synthesis. Earlier reasoning turns scroll off the top, and you cannot visually compare multiple document excerpts side-by-side.</li> <li> <strong>The Electron Memory Tax</strong>: Most desktop AI wrappers idle at 700MB–1GB RAM before you even load model weights into

Outcome

<p>Like many developers and researchers, I've spent the past two years experimenting with local LLMs (via Ollama) and local RAG. But existing desktop frontends repeatedly hit two frustrating walls:</p> <ol> <li> <strong>The 1D Chat Trap</strong>: Linear chat streams work well for simple Q&A, but break down during deep research synthesis. Earlier reasoning turns scroll off the top, and you cannot visually compare multiple document excerpts side-by-side.</li> <li> <strong>The Electron Memory Tax</strong>: Most desktop AI wrappers idle at 700MB–1GB RAM before you even load model weights into

Evidence

Knovum v0.0.3: Building a Local-First Desktop AI Canvas with Tauri 2, Vue 3, and Rust

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