[Notion AI alternative] Create a self-hosted research stack

I’ve been trying to get off cloud-dependent research tools for a while. The problem is always the same, the self-hosted alternatives are either too fragmented (separate tool for notes, separate tool for search, separate tool for AI) or they require so much setup that the friction kills the workflow. What I actually want is something where: My browsing history is mine and searchable by meaning, not just keywords. The AI runs locally against whatever context I give it such as tabs, files, emails. Not just a single prompt. My Mail stays on my machine. There’s some way to share research with collaborators without routing everything through someone else’s server I’ve been experimenting with different setups. The closest I’ve gotten is a desktop browser workspace that keeps everything in encrypted local SQLite, uses LM Studio for embeddings and inference, and has a p2p layer for sharing, no central server involved. What does everyone else’s self-hosted research stack look like? Particularly curious if anyone has solved the “context persistence across sessions” problem without just dumping everything into a giant text file. Repo of what I’ve been using: \[github.com/srimallya/subgrapher\]