@dr_cintas: Claude Cowork now has a free, 100% local competitor Rowboat connects to your Gmail and meeting notes, builds a knowledg…
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Rowboat is a free, local competitor to Claude Cowork that connects to Gmail and meeting notes, builds a knowledge graph, and offers voice control, any LLM support, MCP extensibility, background agents, and Obsidian-compatible Markdown vaults. It has 14.3k GitHub stars and is fully open-source.
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Claude Cowork now has a free, 100% local competitor
Rowboat connects to your Gmail and meeting notes, builds a knowledge graph of your work, and acts on it.
→ Voice-enabled → Works with any LLM (local or hosted) → MCP tool extensibility → Background agents + web search → Obsidian-compatible Markdown vault
14.3k GitHub stars. 100% open-source.
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