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An AI personal assistant for your digital brain
[📜 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)
## Introduction
Welcome to the Khoj Docs! This is the best place to [get started](./setup.md) with Khoj.
- Khoj is a desktop application to [search](./search.md) and [chat](./chat.md) with your notes, documents and images
- It is an offline-first, open source AI personal assistant accessible from your [Emacs](./emacs.md), [Obsidian](./obsidian.md) or [Web browser](./web.md)
- It works with jpeg, markdown, [notion](./notion_integration.md) org-mode, pdf files and [github repositories](./github_integration.md)
- If you have more questions, check out the [FAQ](https://faq.khoj.dev/) - it's a live Khoj instance indexing our Github repository!
## Quickstart
[Click here](./setup.md) for full setup instructions
```shell
pip install khoj-assistant && khoj
```
## Overview
#### [Search](./search.md)
- **Local**: Your personal data stays local. All search and indexing is done on your machine.
- **Incremental**: Incremental search for a fast, search-as-you-type experience
#### [Chat](./chat.md)
- **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
- **Online or Offline**: Choose online or offline chat depending on your requirements