AI Now
Your personal AI assistant that knows you, powered by your memories, integrated with your apps, and capable of complex tasks.
AI Now is the AI assistant connected with your context within Nowledge Mem on top of a Claude-Code like advanced agent system, with omakase built-in skills and plugins.
With the super advanced agent system, which excels at reasoning, code-gen problem solving and file analysis, deep research capabilies and finally, all memories of yours, combined with carefully tuned skills and plugins, AI-Now is your "Alfred like" supper assistant that handles middle to long run compelx tasks with ease, and it knows more and more.
Requirements
AI Now requires a configured Remote LLM.
Go to Settings → Remote LLM to set up, refer to Remote LLM for details.
Capabilities
| Category | What it does |
|---|---|
| Memory Search | Finds relevant memories with semantic understanding |
| Deep Research | Multi-source research combining your memories and web search |
| File Analysis | Analyzes Excel, CSV, Word, PDF files you provide |
| Data Visualization | Generates charts from your data |
| Presentations | Creates slides with live preview and PowerPoint export |
| Travel Planning | Creates interactive day-by-day itineraries |
| Integrations | Connects to Notion, Obsidian, Apple Notes, and MCP servers |
Getting Started
Configure Remote LLM
Go to Settings → Remote LLM and add your API key.
Open AI Now
Click the AI Now tab in the sidebar, or press Cmd/Ctrl + 5.
Start a Task
Ask anything. AI Now automatically searches your memories when relevant:
What architecture decisions have I made about caching?
It finds relevant memories, do web searching, connected note(notion, obsidian, apple notes, etc.) searching when needed or you explicitly ask for it, and finally, synthesize the findings into a coherent answer.
Or, you can:
- Drop a folder of files to the AI Now chat for instant analysis.
- Ask AI Now to analyze your work of the last month, and generate a report into a docs or a slides.
- Perform a study on a specific topic.
AI-Now will fully leverage its capabilities and your context to help you with your tasks, yet, update or create memories when needed.
Refer memories in your chat
You can refer to memories in your chat by using the @ to search memories and mention them in your answer.
Deep Research
For comprehensive research, AI Now schedules sub ageent tasks on searching from multiple sources and synthesizes findings.

Enable Deep Research
Click the Research toggle in AI-Now chat interface to enable deep research.
How It Works
Ask a research question:
Research the current state of quantum error correction
AI Now will:
- Search your memories for what you already know
- Search the web from multiple angles
- Synthesize findings into a coherent answer
- Cite sources with reliability indicators
Skills
Skills are specialized capabilities you can enable to unlock specific features.
| Skill | What it enables |
|---|---|
| Documents | Excel/CSV analysis, chart generation, file operations |
| Presentation Creator | Slide generation with live preview and export |
| Travel Planner | Interactive itinerary creation |
Enable skills in AI Now → Plugins → Skills.
File Analysis
Attach files or folders to your conversation for instant analysis.
Documents Skills
Toggle the Documents SKILL in AI-Now Plugins to enable Data Analysis capabilities.
Supported Files
| Type | Extensions | What AI Now Does |
|---|---|---|
| Spreadsheets | .xlsx, .xls, .csv | Analyzes data, finds patterns, generates charts |
| Documents | .docx, .doc, .pdf | Summarizes, extracts key points, answers questions |
| Code | .py, .js, .ts, etc. | Reviews, explains, suggests improvements |
Example
- Click the folder icon to attach
sales_q4.xlsx - Ask: "What are the top 3 trends in this data?"
- AI Now analyzes and generates visualizations
You can also attach entire folders to analyze multiple files at once.
Here is an example that dropped a folder of files to the AI Now chat and asked it to analyze the data.

Presentations
AI Now can create presentations with live preview and edit.
Presentation Skills
Toggle the Presentation SKILL in AI-Now Plugins to enable Presentation Creation capabilities.
Creating Slides
Create a presentation based on our above study and research, include some charts or diagrams to support the insights
AI Now generates slides with proper structure, charts, and insights, and this is the similar request based on above data analysis on creating a presentation.

Editing
After generation, refine with follow-up requests:
- "Make the third slide more visual"
- "Add a slide about customer segments"
- "Simplify the conclusion"
Or, click the Edit button to edit the presentation.
Exporting
Click the PPTX button to download as PowerPoint (.pptx) for use in other tools.
Travel Planning
AI Now can create detailed travel itineraries.
Travel Planner Skills
Toggle the Travel Planner SKILL in AI-Now Plugins to enable Travel Planning capabilities.
Plan a 5-day trip to Tokyo focusing on food and culture
AI Now generates an interactive day-by-day itinerary with activities, locations, and tips, with your recent memories and deep research as context.

Plugins
Extend AI Now with integrations to your other apps and services.
Built-in Plugins
Obsidian
Connect your local Obsidian vault:
- Go to AI Now → Plugins
- Enable Obsidian
- Set your vault path
Now AI Now can search and read your Obsidian notes alongside your memories.
Notion
Connect your Notion workspace:
- Go to AI Now → Plugins
- Enable Notion
- Click Connect and authorize in the browser
AI Now can now search your Notion pages and databases.
Apple Notes
Apple Notes
Coming soon.
On macOS, AI Now can search your Apple Notes:
- Go to AI Now → Plugins
- Enable Apple Notes
- Grant permission when prompted
DiDi (China)
Book taxis directly from AI Now:
- Go to AI Now → Plugins
- Enable DiDi
Book a taxi from my current location to Beijing Airport
Custom MCP Plugins
AI Now supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for custom integrations.
Go to AI Now → Plugins → Custom Plugins
Click Add MCP Server
Configure the server (stdio command or HTTP endpoint)
Click Test Connection to verify
Enable the plugin
MCP plugins with OAuth (like GitHub, Slack) are automatically detected and will prompt you to authorize.
Session Management
Your AI Now conversations are automatically saved.
- Resume anytime Click a previous session to continue
- Multiple sessions Work on different topics in parallel
- Session context Each session maintains its own conversation history
Auto-Approve Mode
For faster workflows, enable Auto to skip confirmation prompts for file operations and other actions.
Use with caution
Auto-Approve grants AI Now permission to take actions without asking. Only enable for trusted workflows.
Tips
- Be specific "What did we decide about the database migration last month?" works better than "database stuff"
- Attach context Drop files or mention notes with
@to give AI Now more to work with - Enable relevant skills Turn on only the skills you need for cleaner responses
- Use sessions Create separate sessions for different projects or topics
Next Steps
- Remote LLM Setup Configure your AI provider
- Integrations Connect all your tools
- Use Cases See what's possible with AI Now