Tobu
TOBU is a fully offline desktop app that indexes your videos, PDFs, and notes using AI from transcribing speech, embedding visual frames, and understanding text, so you can search what's inside your files, not just their names. Ask a question, get the exact moment with a timestamp.
## What Is TOBU?
TOBU is a fully offline desktop application that turns your personal archive of videos, PDFs, and plain-text notes into a searchable, queryable knowledge base,no cloud, no subscriptions, no data leaving your machine.
Drop a lecture recording into the vault. Ask "what did they say about gradient descent?" and TOBU will surface the exact transcript segment with a timestamp, along with the visual frame from that moment.
Why it matters: Most personal knowledge tools index filenames and metadata. TOBU indexes what's inside : speech, visual content, and text and retrieves it semantically. It bridges the gap between "I know I watched something about this" and actually finding it.