[Feature] File access

[frankvalenziano]

Summary

The ability to access and manage local iPhone folders for custom knowledge that the Project can reference.

Problem / Motivation

Currently, the Off Grid app does not support direct access to iPhone's local folders. This limits its use as a personalized assistant or diary tracker because it cannot read instructions from files stored locally on the device and the file uploads to the app itself are limited to 5mb in size which is restrictive when trying to train it on custom data such as books.

Proposed Solution

Add a feature that allows users to select and manage local iPhone folders as knowledge libraries within the Off Grid app. The AI should be able to:

• Read and process files in these directories for custom knowledge.
• Edit files to update or log information, such as task tracking, goal progress, or diary entries.
• Access and modify a specified directory to maintain reference materials or logs.

Platform

• iOS

Additional Context

The feature would enable users to use the Off Grid AI as a personalized assistant and diary tracker. For example, it could help users track goals, read and update task instructions, and maintain logs in folders on their iPhone, ensuring all data remains offline and accessible when needed.

For example, in Google Gemini I currently instruct a custom Wellness Advisor Gem to refer to the linked Google Drive folder rather than relying on its internal training data which allows specific customized knowledge sets to be used beyond what it can hold in the knowledge uploads. It checks this with each query and ingests data if needed to get relevant up to date information on specialized topics and for tracking wellness information. The Gemini AI refers to it as Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and it's been working great but comes with the privacy and enshitification concerns of it being reliant on Google...