Just Use The CLI

I have experimented with AI for my personal notes for a while.

Until recently my setup was a local Open WebUI. I didn’t invest that much time into it so it never really worked super well.

Open WebUI isn’t directly connected to my notes so I’d have to manually upload any files I wanted to work with.

If I wanted a model to spot trends in my notes from the past month, I’d have to upload something like 30 files. I have a “daily” folder for my journal notes so these files are easy to find and upload. But I’d be missing all other notes I made in that same period.

Needless to say, this wasn’t the optimal setup.

So when coding agents really started kicking off I thought about building something better for myself. Or at least extending what I already had.

But before I built anything, I simply tried opening opencode in my notes folder and letting a Venice.ai model take a look around.

Turns out this was all I needed.

The agent has all the tools it needs to search through my notes and find what I am looking for. It can see when I made changes to files. There is even an entire git history that can be used (files are auto committed though — so no good commit messages to search through).

The terminal is a powerful tool. And together with a competent AI model you can do a lot. This is what people have been saying for a while and I can see why. Even for things not directly related to code.