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DigUp (ARahim3/DigUp): DigUp searches the files on your computer by what is in them: photos, PDFs, documents, recordings, videos and, if you turn it on, code. It runs Google DeepMind's EmbeddingGemma 2 on device through llama.cpp, so you describe what you want in your own words, in 100+ languages, and it jumps to the matching file, page or moment in a video or podcast. It is free, open source and available for Mac, with Windows and Linux in beta. See its 3 use cases.

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  1. Cleanyourtv Gathin23/cleanyourtv · Java · 22,089 stars
    Gathin23/cleanyourtv is a Java project that disables bloat on Android TV and Google TV devices over Wi-Fi with ADB and installs a custom home screen launcher. Written for family tech helpers and TV owners who want an ad-free home screen, and for developers who want to adapt the debloat and theme tooling.
    3 use cases, for example Set up a family TV with a clean, ad-free home screen
  2. TV Detox Ansub/tv-detox · Java · 1,503 stars
    TV Detox makes an old, slow Android TV fast again. You paste a prompt into Claude Code or Codex on your laptop, and the agent removes bloatware, ads and sponsored rows and installs a tiny ad-free home screen with your apps, HDMI inputs and a clock. Apps are turned off, never deleted, and undo.sh turns everything back on. Anyone with a laggy Android TV or Google TV who is comfortable running a coding agent and tapping OK on a remote.
    3 use cases, for example Clean up a slow Android TV with a coding agent
  3. Hermes Agent NousResearch/hermes-agent · Python
    Hermes Agent is a self-improving AI agent from Nous Research. It creates skills from experience, improves them while using them, keeps agent-curated memory, searches its own past conversations, and can run on a small VPS, a GPU box or serverless infrastructure. You talk to it from a full terminal UI or from Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp and Signal through one gateway, and it can run scheduled jobs in plain language. It works with Nous Portal, OpenRouter, OpenAI or your own endpoint. Developers and power users who want a long-running agent that remembers them, learns reusable skills and works on a server while they message it from their phone.
    3 use cases, for example Install Hermes Agent and switch models without code
  4. Open WebUI open-webui/open-webui · Python
    Open WebUI is a self-hosted AI platform with a chat interface for Ollama and OpenAI-compatible APIs that can run entirely offline. It adds local RAG over your documents with hybrid search, web search from many providers, custom models and agents with tools and knowledge, voice and video calls, role-based access control for teams, and SQLite or PostgreSQL storage. It installs with pip, Docker or Kubernetes. Individuals and teams who want a ChatGPT-style interface for local or cloud models on their own server.
    3 use cases, for example Run a private ChatGPT-style app for your local models
  5. OpenClaw openclaw/openclaw · TypeScript · 392,973 stars
    OpenClaw is an open-source personal AI assistant that runs on your own computer and answers you in the chat apps you already use, such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Signal and iMessage, plus native apps for desktop and phone. One Gateway process holds sessions, tools and channel connections; models and agent harnesses (Claude, Codex, local models) are swappable plugins. State, memory and credentials stay on your hardware, and there is no paid tier or hosted service. People who want one always-on assistant they can message from their phone, running on hardware they control, and teams that want a shared deployment of the same thing.
    3 use cases, for example Run your own AI assistant on your laptop in 10 minutes
  6. Attention Control aaddrick/attention-control · Python
    Attention Control is an output style and skill for Claude Code and Codex that applies air traffic control discipline to agent replies, written for readers with ADHD. Developers, especially those with ADHD, who find long agent replies hard to scan and act on.
    3 use cases, for example Make Claude Code replies easier to scan and act on
  7. Linkit blue-idea/linkit · JavaScript
    Linkit is a free, open-source, local-first desktop bookmark manager with AI summaries, semantic search, a knowledge graph, link health checks and optional free cloud sync, using your own OpenAI-compatible API or a local model. Knowledge workers who save lots of links and never find them again.
    3 use cases, for example Find any saved link by meaning, not just title
  8. Obsidian Mind breferrari/obsidian-mind · TypeScript
    Obsidian Mind is an Obsidian vault template that gives AI coding agents persistent memory through hooks, slash commands and optional local QMD semantic search, built for Claude Code with hooks for Codex CLI and Gemini CLI. Developers and engineering managers who want their coding agent to remember goals, people, decisions and wins across sessions.
    3 use cases, for example Give your coding agent a memory that compounds

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Hot AI repos that do similar jobs in Personal productivity: Cleanyourtv, TV Detox, Hermes Agent, Open WebUI, OpenClaw.

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