Local AI Tools Transform Bookmarking, Coding, and Photo Editing with Privacy-First Features
Summary
Three popular software tools now harness local AI models to revolutionize digital workflows: Karakeep automatically tags and summarizes bookmarks, VS Code provides intelligent coding assistance through Continue and Granite extensions, and GIMP integrates Stable Diffusion for AI-powered photo editing—all while keeping user data completely private on local devices.
Key Points
- Karakeep bookmarking app uses local LLMs to auto-generate tags and summaries for saved web pages, PDFs, and images to better organize digital archives
- VS Code coding editor integrates with AI extensions like Continue and Granite to provide inline suggestions and code optimization using locally-hosted language models
- GIMP image editor connects with Stable Diffusion through the gimp-stable-boy repository to enable AI-powered inpainting and enhanced selection tools for photo editing