Ollama

Pros

• Ollama for running local LLMs.
• 5- Obsidian or atomic calendar paired to Ollama
• I run local Ollama and run Cursor just fine.
• If you’re looking for lab things to do. Ollama and Open Web-UI are fun to play around with.
• From there, set up Ollama and OpenWebUI on the machine, and then set yourself up to access it remotely via a VPN app like Tailscale.

Cons

• Parent context: For instance I failed training to use a local ai with ollama. It works fine until I want to use it on a mobile device (like with the app Apollo for iOS) I was not able to access it trough a VPN on a mobile device. Now it...
• one hurdle I have is I host ollama, webui and my mcps on a truenas server via docker
• Is there a simple way to connect something like Ollama to reprocess or format notes locally?
• I recommend LM Studio over Ollama for a variety of reasons, but primarily because the former supports both GGUF (i.e. llama.cpp, like Ollama) and MLX, an inference format specifically optimized for better performance on Apple Silicon.
• Parent context: That's fair. I have Plex, and ollama running on it right now and I'll be honest and understand it's not a great reason, I just stress about breaking it. I fully acknowledge it is not set up the best. I went to update Olla...