NO UPLOADS
Image bytes, document contents, descriptions and embeddings stay on your machine.
PRIVACY / LOCAL BY ARCHITECTURE
YOUR FILES STAY PUT.
NOMEN works locally. Source files are never uploaded, imported into a proprietary library or moved from their folders.
LOCAL PROCESSING FLOW
YOUR FOLDERS
NOMEN
LOCAL MODELS
FILE METADATA
NATIVE SEARCH
LOCAL MEANS LEGIBLE.
NOMEN has a simple data path you can inspect, back up and rebuild. There is no hidden cloud catalog.
NO CLOUD ACCOUNT
Indexing does not require a NOMEN account or a remote processing service.
NO SOURCE-FILE MOVES
Files stay in the folders, drives and archive structure you already use.
REVERSIBLE DERIVED DATA
Local catalog data can be cleared or rebuilt without changing source content.
WHERE INFORMATION LIVES.
Four visible layers: original files, a per-folder catalog, native metadata and an optional local vision model.
| Component | Purpose | Location |
|---|---|---|
| SOURCE FILES | Original images and documents. NOMEN reads them without moving them. | Your existing folders — unchanged |
<source>/__catalog__ | Local SQLite index, CLIP embeddings, cached VLM descriptions and extracted document text. | Inside the selected source folder |
kMDItemKeywords | Native searchable metadata consumed asynchronously by macOS Spotlight and Finder. | Extended metadata on each original file |
| OLLAMA | Optional local VLM runtime used for richer image descriptions and search terms. | Your machine — optional |
YOUR MACHINE / YOUR CHOICE
MODELS STAY OPTIONAL.
CLIP indexing works without Ollama. Enable a local VLM when you want more precise descriptions, then stop safely and unload it from memory.
- CLIP WORKS WITHOUT OLLAMA
- VLM PROCESSING IS OPT-IN
- SUCCESSFUL RESULTS ARE CACHED LOCALLY
- STOP PUBLISHES COMPLETED RESULTS
- ANALYTICS STORAGE DENIED BY DEFAULT