Ask your Mac what you saw.
Ask is Earlyn's search and question box: type a word or a question in plain language and Earlyn answers from your own screen and meeting history, showing the moments it used.
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Search by word, by meaning or by time
Press ⇧⌥Space anywhere. Results arrive as you type, grouped by day, with the app, the window title and the matching words. Search runs on SQLite's full-text index on your Mac and returns in milliseconds.
- By meaning. With the search model installed (EmbeddingGemma, 334 MB), “music” finds the YouTube tab and a Turkish question finds an English page. See how we chose the model.
- By time. Words like “yesterday”, “last week” or “dün” narrow the search to that period.
- With operators.
app:Safari,title:invoice,before:friday,after:2026-09-01,is:pinned,is:copied,is:meetingand "exact phrases". - Across sources. Screen moments, meeting transcripts and the documents in folders you chose appear in one list.
Ask a question, get an answer with sources
Press ⌥↵ to ask instead of search. Earlyn finds the moments that match, hands them to the model you chose and shows the answer with numbered links back to each moment. If nothing matches, it says so instead of guessing.
The Chat page in the main window keeps a thread: follow-up questions see the last answers. Its empty page shows today as a strip of 15-minute bars; drag across a stretch to ask about just that part of the day.
Which model answers
| Model | Where it runs | What it needs |
|---|---|---|
| Apple on-device model | On your Mac | macOS 26 with Apple Intelligence on |
| Earlyn model (Qwen3 1.7B) | On your Mac, with Metal | A one-time 1.1 GB download |
| Ollama | On your Mac, your own server | Ollama running on localhost |
| Claude or OpenAI | The provider's servers | Your own API key; the question and the memories retrieved for it are sent |
Questions
- Can Ask answer about meetings too?
- Yes. Meeting transcripts are searched with your screen history, and a question like “what did we decide yesterday” uses both.
- Does Ask make things up?
- It is told to answer only from the numbered memories it was given and to say when they do not contain the answer. With no memory at all for a period, Earlyn answers that it has none without calling the model.
- Can I search in Turkish or other languages?
- Yes. Full-text search ignores accents, so “sukur” finds “şükür”, and search by meaning works across languages.
Read next
- Feature · RewindRewindRewind is Earlyn's timeline of your screen: it keeps a picture and the text of every moment your screen changes, so you can scroll back through your day and find anything you saw on your Mac.
- Research · September 2026Local search by meaningIn Earlyn's test of 12 search-by-meaning queries in English and Turkish, EmbeddingGemma 300M and bge-m3 ranked the right document first all 12 times, Apple's NLContextualEmbedding 4 times, and a converted multilingual-e5-small model once.
- Feature · AI agentsMemory for AI agentsEarlyn gives AI coding agents a memory: one click registers a local MCP server in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf or Gemini CLI, so they can search what you saw and heard and ask Earlyn questions, over 127.0.0.1 only.