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· Benchmark Recall vs. restraint: which local models know when not to save a memory A 120-case benchmark of local models writing personal memories, scored on what they save and on what they correctly leave out: Qwen3.5 4B and 9B, Hy-Memory 30B-A3B, LFM2.5 24B-A2B, and MemT-1.0-Nano. 6 min read · Release LokalBot is on Windows and Linux, in alpha LokalBot 0.11 adds a native Windows and Linux app written in Rust with GPUI: meeting notes, transcription, dictation, autocomplete, and search on your own computer, reading the same library as the Mac app. 5 min read · Build notes How the Windows and Linux port was built The Windows and Linux app was ported from 150,000 lines of Swift to Rust in three days by coding agents. What made it work, how the result was checked, and a link to the full write-up. 3 min read · Autocomplete Autocomplete that knows your meetings LokalBot's autocomplete runs Gemma 4 E2B base at about 50 ms a suggestion on an M4 Max and can bring in facts from your own meeting notes. How it compares with Cotypist and Cotabby. 4 min read · Integration Search your meetings from Raycast The LokalBot Raycast extension finds every meeting where a word came up, in titles, summaries, or transcripts, without opening the app. It only reads your local library. 2 min read · Models Five local models, 6.8 GB of weights Since July every model in LokalBot was benchmarked and most defaults swapped for smaller ones. In 0.9.2 the whole stack is 6.8 GB, with faster notes, better speaker labels, and quicker autocomplete. 3 min read · Release A whole workday on local models LokalBot 0.5 adds Dreaming, which turns a finished day into a morning brief, plus faster autocomplete and answers right in Quick Recall. What the app does, and the models behind it. 3 min read · Launch Introducing LokalBot LokalBot is a free, open-source Mac app that records and summarizes meetings, autocompletes your typing in any app, and tracks where your day went, with every model running on your Mac. 3 min read