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Rowboat

An open-source, local-first AI coworker with memory for everyday work

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Rowboat connects your email and meeting notes, builds long-lived knowledge from them, and uses that knowledge to help get work done on your machine.

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Demo

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Quick start

Download for Mac:

https://github.com/rowboatlabs/rowboat/releases/latest

What it does

Rowboat ingests your:

• Email (Gmail)
• Meeting notes (Granola, Fireflies)

and organizes them into a local, Obsidian-compatible vault of plain Markdown files with backlinks.

This vault is not just for browsing or search. It becomes a working memory that Rowboat’s AI uses to take actions on your behalf.

As new emails and meetings come in, the relevant notes update automatically, building persistent context across people, projects, organizations, and topics.

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How it’s different

Most AI tools reconstruct context on demand by searching transcripts or documents.

Rowboat maintains long-lived knowledge instead:

• context accumulates over time
• relationships are explicit and inspectable
• notes are editable by you, not hidden inside a model
• everything lives on your machine as plain Markdown

The result is memory that compounds, rather than retrieval that starts cold every time.

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What you can do with it

Rowboat uses this knowledge to help with everyday work, including:

• Drafting emails using accumulated context
• Preparing for meetings from prior decisions and discussions
• Organizing files and project artifacts as work evolves
• Running shell comma...