Goldfish
A lightweight Mac companion that remembers your work context across all apps and writes responses in your own tone — no copy-pasting or re-explaining required.
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Product Overview
What is Goldfish?
Goldfish is a local memory tool for macOS (and Windows) that silently captures what you work on across your apps — emails, docs, tabs, threads — and turns it into searchable, private memory stored on your device. Press ⌥ Option anywhere you type to instantly get contextually accurate replies, summaries, or continuations written in your personal style. It also connects to Claude Desktop via local MCP, auto-generates a browsable wiki of your work life, and identifies repetitive workflows you might want to streamline.
Key Features
Always-On Contextual Memory
Continuously captures activity across your Mac apps and stores it in a local SQLite database, building a searchable memory of your work without any manual input or integrations.
One-Click Writing Anywhere
Press ⌥ Option in any text field — email, Slack, Notion, browser, code editor — to instantly get replies, summaries, or continuations with full context already loaded.
Personalized Tone Learning
Learns your writing style across different apps, scenarios, and contacts so generated responses sound like you, not a generic AI assistant.
Local MCP Integration with Claude
Connects natively to Claude Desktop via local MCP, making your full work context available directly inside Claude without any manual setup.
Auto-Generated Life Wiki
Automatically builds a browsable wiki from your captured context, giving you a structured overview of your own work, projects, and patterns.
Privacy-First Architecture
All memory is stored locally on your Mac. AI requests run through Azure OpenAI with zero data retention — not even Goldfish's own team can access your data.
Use Cases
- Email & Message Replies : Professionals handling high message volumes can reply to emails, Slack threads, and WhatsApp chats in one click, with context-aware responses in their own tone.
- Writing & Document Continuation : Writers and knowledge workers can resume drafts or documents instantly — Goldfish already knows what the document is about and what tone to match.
- Research & Summarization : Users browsing multiple tabs or reference docs can summarize and synthesize content without switching tools or re-explaining what they're researching.
- Workflow Automation Discovery : Goldfish identifies tasks you repeat frequently and surfaces them, helping you recognize and eliminate manual repetition in your daily work.
- Claude Power Users : Users who rely on Claude for thinking and writing can pipe their full Mac context directly into Claude Desktop via the local MCP connection.
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