IncarnaMind

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<h1 align="center">IncarnaMind</h1>

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  <b>The AI notebook that checks its own citations.</b><br>
  Write and ask in one place, with answers from your own files and the AI model you choose. Free and open source, on your computer.
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  <a href="#what-you-can-do">What you can do</a> ·
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<p align="center"><img src="docs/images/demo.gif" width="880" alt="Six screens in turn: two sentences of a draft selected, with Check against Documents in the menu; the same draft checked, each sentence marked supported, unsupported or contradicted, with a count under the title; a Citation opened beside the note, its quote highlighted on the PDF page; a lender update someone else wrote, opened to verify, with Check 8 claims; its claims checked, one contradicted by the facilities agreement on page 3; and the checked draft in the Chinese interface."></p>

<p align="center"><sub>Everything shown is in the app today.</sub></p>

**IncarnaMind** is a free, open-source desktop app for macOS, Windows and Linux where you ask questions about your own documents (PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel and more) and write with AI. Every answer cites the exact page, and IncarnaMind checks that each quoted passage is really there. It works with your ChatGPT plan, your own API key or a local model through Ollama.

## Download

**IncarnaMind isn't released yet.** Once it is, the [Releases page](https://github.com/IncarnaMind/IncarnaMind/releases) will have installers for macOS (Apple silicon and Intel), Windows and Linux. To hear when, [leave your e-mail](https://tally.so/r/rjN2jL?ref=readme) or click **Watch → Custom → Releases** at the top of this page. To try it now, run it from source with Node.js 24 or newer:

```shell
git clone https://github.com/IncarnaMind/IncarnaMind.git && cd IncarnaMind
npm install && npm run dev
```

Windows releases will be signed through the SignPath Foundation's free signing for open-source projects; until then the installer is unsigned. See the [Code signing policy](docs/code-signing-policy.md).

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<summary>If your system won't open it</summary>

- **Windows** says "Windows protected your PC": the installer isn't code-signed yet. Click **More info**, then **Run anyway**.
- **macOS** says it can't verify IncarnaMind: until the app is notarized, open it once and click **Done**, then **System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway**. Or run `xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/IncarnaMind.app`. An unsigned Mac app can't update itself: IncarnaMind tells you when a new version is out and offers its download page.
- **Linux**: run `chmod +x IncarnaMind-*.AppImage`. On Ubuntu 22.04 or later, also `sudo apt install libfuse2` (`libfuse2t64` on 24.04 and later).

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## What you can do

**Check your draft before you send it.** Select sentences in a Mind and choose **Check against Documents**: each one comes back supported, unsupported or contradicted by your Documents, with the page one click away, and the line under the title counts what still needs a look. A PDF someone else wrote can be checked the same way, claim by claim: **+ → Verify a document…**.

**Write and ask in one place.** A Mind is a notebook for one topic. Beside it sits the assistant: ask it about the Mind you're in or your files, and the Answer comes back there, in a conversation, with its citations checked. Your draft stays as you wrote it until you pick **Add to note**, which puts the Answer at your cursor as text you can edit, citations and all.

**Check every answer.** Answers cite where each claim came from and carry the quote, which is checked against that place: a green check if it's there, an amber mark if it isn't, and a click opens the page with the quote highlighted. Unfold an Answer's steps to see what it searched and which sources it used.

**Take notes in a meeting.** Start recording and a live transcript runs beside your Mind, transcribed on this computer

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