Piece VS ChatALL

Some backstory of Piece in case you are interested:

This was initially a rewrite of one of my side projects during college years ago. It was originally implemented with Electron (https://github.com/PolarisChen/Piece), resulting a more than 100M size for such a tiny app. At that time, Electron just came out, and I thought the best way to get to learn something is by making something with it, which I still find legit. Anyway, the code haven't been touched for a long time, even though I used the app personally every day.

Months ago, I finally got some free time and decided to review the app, and concluded easily to rewrite it with Swift. There were some obstacles during the rewrite (https://twitter.com/polchen_/status/1433704888366604292), but eventually I made it. I tweeted about some comparison in terms of UI/UX, app size, memory usage (https://twitter.com/polchen_/status/1429224010852626440).

But I wanna make it more than just a rewrite, so I added some features that I personally needed, and just posted it on Mac App Store as a freemium app.

You might notice I mentioned "personally" several times. It's true. I'm not quite confident whether others would have the same need. Personally (again), I found Piece really useful in my daily life/work, as I can quickly bring it up with a global shortcut and write down anything in my mind, ideas, to-dos, random thoughts, etc; or use it as a outline prompter when I write, present or talk, since it's always floating-on-top, and I can quickly press the same shortcut to hide it when I don't need it anymore. It's a note-taking app, but don't get me wrong, it's not to compete with those branding note-taking apps like Notion. It's just a tiny app. I think what Piece to other formal note-taking apps is more like what working memory to long-term memory.

There are some other features like paste-to-app, copy-to-piece, clean reminder, additional themes and highlight syntax. But I would leave for those who are interested to experience them with the app.

I have a lot of ideas for future development. I even think about making an iOS version. But for now, I think I just wanna verify it and see if there are users like me. Thanks for reading the story and using the app :-D

First of all, I'd like it to be distributed for users to install as a hub running independently from any browser in the background - although with the possibility of accessing it's interface through a browser if necessary. If I'd have to give you some working examples of similar solutions, it would be something like connection of such apps like ChatAll with a service called SAMP that interconnects multiple apps/services provided by ESA CDPP and related to space weather and multiple satellite missions (http://3dview.cdpp.eu) - yup, that's yet another of those weird hobbies of mine :P

Source: ChatALL/wiki

For some reason, software developers and AI experts seem to be focused on achieving multimodality by extending capabilities of individual models and training them on different sets of data - while my plan is to make them work together. Maybe I should try contacting someone responsible for the 'HuggingFace LLM Arena' and propose to add a function that would allow the competing models to speak to each other - I think that it's a quite good way of evaluating model's 'strength'. There are multiple apps and sites that allow user to speak with multiple models simultaneously - ChatAll is a nice example - and I think that allowing all those models to speak with each other is the most obvious function that should be added to such apps...

--> https://github.com/sunner/ChatALL