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# Overview
Learn about Khoj and its features.
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[📜 Explore Code ](https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj )
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[🌍 Try Khoj Cloud ](https://khoj.dev )
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[💬 Get Involved ](https://discord.gg/BDgyabRM6e )
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## Introduction
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Welcome to the Khoj Docs! This is the best place to get setup and explore Khoj's features.
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- Khoj is an open source, personal AI
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- You can [chat ](/features/chat.md ) with it about anything. When relevant, it'll use any notes or documents you shared with it to respond
- Quickly [find ](/features/search.md ) relevant notes and documents using natural language
- It understands pdf, plaintext, markdown, org-mode files, [notion pages ](/online-data-sources/notion_integration.md ) and [github repositories ](/online-data-sources/github_integration.md )
- Access it from your [Emacs ](/clients/emacs.md ), [Obsidian ](/clients/obsidian.md ), [Web browser ](/clients/web.md ) or the [Khoj Desktop app ](/clients/desktop.md )
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- You can self-host Khoj on your consumer hardware or share it with your family, friends or team from your private cloud
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## Quickstart
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- [Try Khoj Cloud ](https://app.khoj.dev ) to get started quickly
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- [Read these instructions ](/get-started/setup.mdx ) to self-host a private instance of Khoj
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## At a Glance
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#### [Search](/features/search.md)
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- **Natural**: Use natural language queries to quickly find relevant notes and documents.
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- **Incremental**: Incremental search for a fast, search-as-you-type experience
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#### [Chat](/features/chat.md)
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- **Faster answers**: Find answers faster, smoother than search. No need to manually scan through your notes to find answers.
- **Iterative discovery**: Iteratively explore and (re-)discover your notes
- **Assisted creativity**: Smoothly weave across answers retrieval and content generation
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- **Online or Offline**: Choose online or offline chat depending on your requirements