This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Week 3: Slow and Steady.
I have a folder full of notes I never reread. Standups. A grocery list. An email to my landlord. Book club plans.
slothnotes is a small Python CLI that reads that folder for me. You point it at a folder of .md or .txt files. It prints one summary line per note. If you want, it also writes a digest.md you can skim in about ten seconds.
It runs a small open-weight model (Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct, Q4_K_M GGUF, about 490 MB) on the CPU through llama.cpp. After the model download, it needs no API key and no network.
The effort it saves is the boring part: opening every file to remember what was in it. One command does that.
This is a real run on four sample notes: standup, groceries, landlord, book club. On an 8-core CPU with no GPU, it summarized all four in about 3 seconds.
One honest limit: the tiny model got a grocery detail wrong. It listed "half a loaf of bread" when the note actually says to skip bread. A bigger GGUF should be more accurate, but it will be slower. For a quick skim it's fine. For anything that matters, read the note.
https://gitlab.com/engelstands-hue/slothnotes
MIT licensed. It has a README, three pytest tests that run without the model, and a GitLab CI job.
--model takes any GGUF, so you can swap models without touching code.
To try it:
pip install llama-cpp-python --extra-index-url https://abetlen.github.io/llama-cpp-python/whl/cpu
curl -L -o models/qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-q4_k_m.gguf https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-GGUF/resolve/main/qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-q4_k_m.gguf
python slothnotes.py demo_notes --out digest.md
Notes are personal. Standups, landlord emails, grocery lists. Because slothnotes runs an open-weight model locally, none of that leaves the machine. It works offline, and each run costs nothing. Since the model is open, you can swap in a bigger or fine-tuned one with a single flag.
A closed API would mean an account, a key, a bill, and sending my notes to someone else's server. For a tool whose whole point is being lazy, that's too much setup.
None. This entry doesn't use partner technology.
More of what I build: https://engelailabs.com