Personal Knowledge Assistant
Ask questions across a selected personal document collection
The PKA retrieves passages, identifies their source and states when the collection does not support an answer.
- Intended result
- The user can locate relevant passages and source documents without manually opening every file.
- Human approval
- Required
- Integration
- Not necessarily
01
Situation
The PKA retrieves passages, identifies their source and states when the collection does not support an answer.
02
Current problem
03
Desired change
The user can locate relevant passages and source documents without manually opening every file.
04
Technology and data
- Add
- Extract text, preserve the original and assign source metadata.
- Replace
- Mark versions and prevent outdated files from silently competing with current ones.
- Remove
- Delete the source and verify it no longer appears in retrieval results.
05
Boundaries
- Verify correct document and passage retrieval.
- Show citations and visible uncertainty.
- Do not assume every PDF or scan is cleanly extractable.
- Assess storage, training and retention terms before using sensitive files.
- OCR and file quality affect results
- Sensitive content needs provider assessment
- The user verifies interpretation