Waylight for macOS - ChatGPT, but with context from your tabs, meetings, and docs
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Waylight is now available on Apple Silicon Macs! That includes all Macs and MacBooks made after 2020, and some made in 2020.
Waylight is an AI assistant that understands everything you do on your computer — your meetings, documents, tabs, and messages. It builds a private memory of your activity so you can ask questions about anything you’ve seen and get instant, accurate answers.
Waylight organizes your life, automatically generating a to-do list and daily journal based on your activity.
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The context from tabs/meetings/docs is exactly what we need for better AI responses. How do you handle the privacy aspect of pulling in all that context?
Great idea! Can you control apps by voice? That would be a really cool feature.
I get that it's a new piece of software, with a very, very compelling sell point, but it just doesn't do what it says "on the tin." Like @Anders Eilertsen, I used Waylight for a while, but I found that its helper was constantly causing my OS to crash, sometimes in the middle of important webinars or Zoom calls. When I tried out some of the tools, it seemed like it got some semblance of what I did, but very vaguely; I got more activity from apps like Timing or even macOS's built-in Screen Time. The Local Model OS was very rudimentary compared to the cloud model, but I can't speak to the accuracy or quality of the Cloud Model with its limited responses for something in beta—and no way to add existing API keys for Claude or ChatGPT—so what exactly is running behind the scenes, then?
I look forward to something like this in the future, but it needs to be far more stable, transparent, and capable of understanding what it is looking at, not just "assuming" based on one or two cues (for example, not all Chromium browsers are Chrome).