Show HN: I built an AI-Powered semantic search for Mac

4 points by coffeecoders 5 hours ago

After getting frustrated with macOS's Spotlight search, e.g., typing "driver license" doesn't give me anything unless the file name matches exactly, I thought, why not index my entire Documents folder? This way, I can find that one PDF or image buried deep in subfolders using natural language queries.

So I built SmartSearch; it uses SentenceTransformers for embeddings and FAISS for fast similarity search. Best of all, it runs locally on your computer.

Github: https://github.com/neberej/smart-search/

Demo: https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/aed054e0-a91f-459...

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