Khoj
Personal AI second brain: search your docs, schedule automations, do deep research
Overview
Khoj is an autonomous AI assistant that indexes your personal documents, notes, and web content to answer questions with grounded citations. It supports custom agents, scheduled automations, deep research workflows, and integrates with Obsidian, Emacs, and browser extensions. Any local or cloud LLM can power it, and it ships as a Python package or Docker image.
Where it falls short of ChatGPT
- Real-time web search index is shallower than Perplexity or Bing-backed tools
- Team/multi-user collaboration features are limited in self-hosted mode
- Scheduled automations require careful setup and may drift without monitoring
- Mobile apps are basic compared to consumer AI assistants
We list the gaps honestly so you can decide if the trade-off is worth owning your data.
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