What are the privacy implications of using this?

[NastyFlytrap]

Is anything uploaded to any server?

Is it doing everything locally on my device?

Does this even need an external internet connection? (IE, access to the world outside the home network)

[scambier]

Omnisearch works 100% offline, and all data (cache and settings) are saved locally. The search features are built on top of minisearch which is an in-memory search engine. There is zero analytics, and zero external call.

An attention point: there is an opt-in HTTP server that can be activated to let third-party applications query Omnisearch. This server is disabled by default, and when enabled, restricted to localhost by default, so it can't be called by another computer.

Omnisearch can also be optionally extended by other plugins (i.e. Text Extractor or AI Image Analyzer), but those plugins might have different policies regarding external calls. Again, those are opt-in: even if said plugins are installed, Omnisearch won't use them unless you explicitly enable the relevant settings.

[NastyFlytrap]

Omnisearch works 100% offline, and all data (cache and settings) are saved locally. The search features are built on top of minisearch which is an in-memory search engine. There is zero analytics, and zero external call.

An attention point: there is an opt-in HTTP server that can be activated to let third-party applications query Omnisearch. This server is disabled by default, and when enabled, restricted to localhost by default, so it can't be called by another computer.

Omnisearch can also be optionally extended by other plugins (i.e. Text Extractor or AI Image Analyzer), but those plugins might have different policies regarding external calls. Again, those are opt-in: even if said plugins are installed, Omnisearch won't use them unless you explicitly enable the relevant settings.

This is great to hear!

As the author of text extractor however, i wish to ask the same question about that. At this point it feels unnecessary to create a post over there about this exact thing

[scambier]

Text Extractor follows the same philosophy. The only difference is that it needs an internet connection to download language data, which are not bundled in the plugin scambier/obsidian-text-extractor#31

But apart from that, there are no calls to external dependencies.

[NastyFlytrap]

Text Extractor follows the same philosophy. The only difference is that it needs an internet connection to download language data, which are not bundled in the plugin scambier/obsidian-text-extractor#31

But apart from that, there are no calls to external dependencies.

Is this something that i can just download once or does this need constant updating every few days?

[scambier]

These files are managed by Electron in its cache, I can't tell, sorry.

[NastyFlytrap]

These files are managed by Electron in its cache, I can't tell, sorry.

Okay, well, thanks for the answers anyway