I was thinking about this the other day.

I can’t see the point, desktop search is a solved problem.

Yes Windows find is shit, but it doesn’t have to be.

I know a bunch of the conspiracies, but what is the legitimate use case?

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    Its a double-edged sword. There is a ton of use in something like “help me display the data in this excel workbook for a presentation” but the tradeoff is that data is now indexed in the recall database along with everything else you do.

    Ultimately, using recall is a security concern that massively outweighs any benefits it offers, but to say it offers no benefit at all is incorrect.

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      By default, the security concerns do massively outweigh the benefits, to me. On my work machine the benefits outweigh the security issues, because it’s tightly locked down.

      But if we can figure out how to safely implement such a system with very tight controls, it will be a huge game changer for individuals.