mindemory/proxenos

A free, open-source personal memory toolbox. Your records stay on your computer; it drafts the next step for you to send.
macOS 13 or newer on Apple silicon (.dmg), or Windows x64 (.exe). Both are unsigned for now: on a Mac, open System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway; on Windows, when SmartScreen warns, choose More info → Run anyway.
Proxenos reads your own mail, chats, calendars, notes, documents and health records into a private vault on your computer, keeps a written model of who you are, and drafts the next step in your voice: the reply, the plan, the call script, the brief for your next appointment. It was built first for people getting through the health care system, and now it's for anyone.
## Get started
From source, on a Mac with Homebrew:
bash
git clone https://github.com/mindemory/proxenos && cd proxenos && scripts/install.sh
It installs what's missing (Node, Ollama's own app, and Miniforge if there's no conda), sets up the proxenos conda env and the page, and pulls a local model that fits your Mac's memory. Running it again only adds what's missing. --no-model skips it if you'll use Claude; --start-at-login keeps the page and a sync running from login on.
bash
conda activate proxenos
proxenos demo # try it on a made-up person first; prints how to open it
proxenos web # your own, at http://127.0.0.1:4747
Setup asks your name, where to keep the vault and which model to use, then Connect adds a first source. A model is needed for anything to be drafted: an open one on your computer through Ollama (gemma4:26b fits a 32 GB Mac), or Claude with your own Anthropic API key. Windows and Linux run from source too, though less tried (docs/apps.md). Every step by hand is in the guide; every command, in docs/commands.md.
## How it works
It reads your own records. About 30 sources, each on its own: WhatsApp, Slack, Gmail, Microsoft 365, the Mac's Mail and Calendar, Google Takeout, Apple Health and patient portals, Spotify, Strava, notes, PDFs and other exports. Re-reading one changes nothing. Some readers expect a particular export format (docs/datasources.md).
One model of you, in text you can read. Observers read your side of each conversation, a month at a time, and write notes about you. The master folds them into one self-model of your interests, voice and routines, which you can read and correct. Small agents, "clones", each read it and do one job: tasks, where your care stands, a feed of papers, a map of people, a searchable memory (docs/architecture.md).
It drafts, you send. A reply for each chat waiting on you, written the way you write to that person, and emails, plans, call scripts and filled-in forms. You press send. The two exceptions are yours to start: an outbox you switch on per app, only where its drafts have gone out nearly unchanged many times (docs/memory.md), and a phone call you place, where it says it's automated and never agrees to pay (docs/calls.md).
Your work and your life. For each project or paper it writes where things stand and, given the code, does the next step on a branch for you to accept. It also keeps your job leads, a journal of each day, a diary of your life by month, and your weeks of listening, movement and messages over time.