What is Quira?
Before diving into setup, it helps to understand the idea behind the product. Quira is a Gecko-based browser built on a simple observation: AI made knowledge free, but your context is yours alone. ChatGPT knows everything about the world. Quira knows everything about you Ewhat you've read, how your research has evolved, and which threads of inquiry you've left unexplored.
The two aren't competing. They're complementary. Quira makes any LLM 10x more useful by providing the personal context that no cloud AI can access.
Core features
Automatically captures and structures your browsing into a queryable knowledge graph. Pages you visit for 30+ seconds become context nodes, connected by the actual path of your investigation.
Ships with Phi-3.5 Mini running entirely on your device. Summarizes pages, extracts entities, and answers natural language queries about your browsing history. Your data never leaves your machine.
Organize tabs by research context, not just position. Each Space holds tabs, notes, AI summaries, and a partial view of the Context Graph. Think GTD for your browser.
Resume any past investigation exactly where you left off. The AI tells you what you covered, what conclusions you reached, and what remains unexplored.
Privacy by design
All Context Graph data is stored locally in an encrypted SQLite database. Even when cloud AI is enabled (opt-in), only query text and summaries are sent Enever your raw browsing history or page content. See AI Privacy Levels for details.