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I Built “Personal Store” Because I Was Tired of Texting Myself

Mangesh Dalvi on January 12, 2026

Stop treating your WhatsApp "You" chat like a database. It's time for an upgrade. We all do it. You’re on your phone, scrolling through Twitter or...
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Kamal Morjal

I do use a version of "You" chat like a database ever since delicio.us went offline. You nailed the problem statement so well that i let out an amused snort - "hey, that's me" :)

In fact it is so much of a muscle memory now that your article's link also went straight into that db as soon as i read through your intro. 😂

Thank you for sharing this project.

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Mangesh Dalvi

Haha, the void delicio.us left is real! I’m glad I could nail the problem statement for you. Honored to be the latest entry in your DB! 😂

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Ben Sinclair

If it's self-hosted and privacy-aware, how does the AI store manage that?

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Mangesh Dalvi

This is good question. Communication of Agent Store is strictly unidirectional. Data you input is categorised (link, snippet, or clipboard) and stored via API using AI. The AI represents a 'write-only' interface regarding in Personal Store—it knows only what you explicitly share and cannot fetch existing data from the database.

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Ketut Dana

Hi thank you for sharing its nice project.
I just finish something similiar, its call vinotesapp

same like what you did
its save some text, an images , link and more.
the cool part is, we can sync to our google drive. so the file is save on our accaount.

please visit at vinotesapp.com

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Kamal Morjal

This is lovely. Thanks for sharing. Is this also open source?
May I suggest a feature - instead of working on folder organisation, have you considered tags, or labels like gmail? I find that to be a lot more flexible way for organisation of such quick notes behind the scenes instead of creating folders and then keeping track of the folders while creating new content and wanting to quickly save it.

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Mangesh Dalvi

Thank you for sharing, It is looking a nice website.

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Emmanuele D

Awesome! I'll text myself this article!

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Mangesh Dalvi • Edited

lol, the classic 'text-to-self'—the most reliable database.

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Vishnukumar CR

Explanation and features are just awesome.

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Mangesh Dalvi

Thank you!

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Athashri Keny

Looks Great and Clean!

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Mangesh Dalvi

Thank you for trying it.

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Tuna

That's actually well tought and really nicely made. Well done

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Mangesh Dalvi

Thank you!

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Moussabkobisy

Great Job, thanks for sharing,
i'd love to see a mobile app Version, with the ability to share from social media to the personal store directly

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Mangesh Dalvi

Thank you for really great suggestion, I will work on it.

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brancherica@aol.com

Nice work! bro

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Mangesh Dalvi

Thank you!

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PIRITIZ

Nice work!!

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Mangesh Dalvi

Thank you!

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Fred Brooker

never heard about Google Keep? 🤔

it's already covered by SLA, enterprise ready, syncing, easy, free

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Mangesh Dalvi

Actually, I wanted to have something where I can also categories links, snippets. Also wanted to use AI to automatically create it at proper place for me. I think it is quite difficult to achieve by using "Google Keep".