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Personal Search Across Mail, Docs and Notes

Ask one question and search your email, drive and notes at once.

Advanced26h1–3 people17/20 fit
TL;DR

Build Personal Search Across Mail, Docs and Notes for knowledge workers in ~26h with 1–3 people. Stack: Embeddings + Qdrant + Gmail API + LLM.

Why it wins: Retrieval with citations across real apps.

Build flow

01 · Problem
Information is split across apps, so finding one fact means five searches.
02 · Solution
Index mail, docs and notes into a local vector store, answer questions with cited snippets and link back to the source.
03 · Build
  1. 1Connect sources
  2. 2Chunk and embed
  3. 3Store in Qdrant
  4. 4Answer with citations
04 · Demo
Ask 'what did the vendor quote in March' and open the cited email.

MVP checklist

  • Multi-source indexing
  • Cited answers
  • Source links
  • Local index

Tech stack

TechRole
EmbeddingsSemantic similarity
QdrantVector search engine
Gmail APIEmail data
LLMLanguage model

Reference repos

Open-source projects you can build on. Links checked 2026-10-31.

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