Ollama

Essential tools: Hugo PaperMod theme Visual Studio Code Obsidian DigitalOcean App Platform AI is used as an assistant. I’m doing the writing, but with help (usually in the form of proof reading or helping with structure). I bounce around between a variety of tools. Claude - Often integrated with other tools like vscode, Obsidian, AnythingLLM. AnythingLLM Ollama Open WebUI ChatGPT - Largely Claude is replacing this. But I still use it some.

Introduction I’m writing this just before hopping on a long trans-atlantic flight. I’m not betting on the in-flight WiFi being very good, so I’m taking the time to get a local AI assistant running on my laptop. I think many travelers will be interested in setting something like this up, so I’d like to take the time to document a lot of how I’m doing this… and hopefully make it easier for others to get it going. ...