{"slug": "show-hn-hunch-search-your-email-by-a-hunch-with-a-conversation", "title": "Show HN: Hunch, search your email by a hunch; with a conversation", "summary": "Hunch, an open-source email search tool, lets users find emails by describing them in natural language rather than using keywords. It indexes mail locally on the user's machine, supports any IMAP account, and uses an AI agent to clarify ambiguous queries. The tool streams and re-ranks matches in real-time, displaying results alongside the conversation.", "body_md": "Find any email by describing it in your own words. A conversation, not a keyword search — no need to remember the exact words that are in the message.\n\nVague in, the right email out — the conversation, live-ranked matches, and the email itself, side by side.\n\nYou rarely remember the words in an email — you remember the gist. Hunch is built for the gist.\n\nAny IMAP account — Proton, Gmail, Outlook. Your credentials are encrypted.\n\nHunch indexes your mail on your own machine. Nothing is shipped off to an embedding service to be read.\n\n\"The document the bank sent about my mortgage.\" An AI agent searches, and asks a short question if it's unsure which one you mean.\n\nMatches stream in and re-rank as it searches; click one to read it right beside the conversation. Read-only, always.\n\nHunch is open source and self-hosted. Here's how it works under the hood and how to run your own.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-hunch-search-your-email-by-a-hunch-with-a-conversation", "canonical_source": "https://margaine.com/hunch/", "published_at": "2026-07-01 16:16:38+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-01 16:20:24.735197+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-tools", "natural-language-processing", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Hunch", "Proton", "Gmail", "Outlook"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-hunch-search-your-email-by-a-hunch-with-a-conversation", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-hunch-search-your-email-by-a-hunch-with-a-conversation.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-hunch-search-your-email-by-a-hunch-with-a-conversation.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-hunch-search-your-email-by-a-hunch-with-a-conversation.jsonld"}}