marginalia

About marginalia

Marginalia Chinese README: README.zh-CN.md Detailed design: DESIGN.md Turn your PDFs, notes, spreadsheets, logs, and archives into a private AI library that answers from original sources. Marginalia is a local-first research agent for people with messy private knowledge bases. It keeps your files in a normal folder tree, builds useful library metadata around them, and makes the agent read the relevant original file windows before it writes a cited answer.

apple-silicon arm64 desktop-app docker document-management document-search fastapi information-retrieval knowledge-base llm

Quick Facts

Stars	200
Forks	27
Language	Python
Category	AI Tool
License	AGPL-3.0
Quality Score	66.9809606784692/100
Last Updated	2026-07-03
Created	2026-05-23
Platforms	docker, python
Est. Tokens	~17k

Compatible Skills

These tools work well together with marginalia for enhanced workflows:

brain-mcp — semantic(0.31)+complementary+rare_topics+same_lang+similar_pop+shared_platform (65%)
llm-wiki-template — semantic(0.28)+complementary+rare_topics+same_lang+similar_pop+shared_platform (64%)
knowledge-rag — semantic(0.25)+complementary+rare_topics+same_lang+similar_pop+shared_platform (63%)
stash — semantic(0.38)+complementary+rare_topics+same_lang+similar_pop+shared_platform (63%)

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is marginalia?

marginalia is A library-science-inspired personal knowledge management system with LLM agents. It is categorized as a AI Tool with 200 GitHub stars.

What programming language is marginalia written in?

marginalia is primarily written in Python. It covers topics such as apple-silicon, arm64, desktop-app.

How do I install or use marginalia?

You can find installation instructions and usage details in the marginalia GitHub repository at github.com/shenmintao/marginalia. The project has 200 stars and 27 forks, indicating an active community.

What license does marginalia use?

marginalia is released under the AGPL-3.0 license, making it free to use and modify according to the license terms.

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