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Virtually Myself® vs a self-built local vault
A project vs a product
For the technically inclined, there's real appeal in rolling your own: a local Obsidian vault for your notes, maybe a self-hosted open model running on your own machine, everything on your hardware and under your control. If you enjoy building and maintaining your own tools, it's a legitimate path, and the privacy instinct behind it is exactly right.
The reality is that it's a project, not a product. Tools like Obsidian are excellent at storing and linking notes, but on their own they don't understand your material across formats, model your voice, or produce finished work, and a locally run model adds hardware demands, setup, tuning, and a security burden that's now entirely yours.
What rolling your own gives you
- Full local control and privacy
- Notes stored and linked on your own hardware
- Freedom to tinker and customise
- No third-party platform in the loop
What Virtually Myself® adds
- A structured Vault across 15+ formats, not just notes
- Voice modelling and finished content, not just storage
- No hardware, setup, tuning or security burden on you
- Professionally built, maintained and secured
- Sovereign by default, Australian-hosted, private, never used to train public models
The bottom line
Sovereignty and control, without having to engineer and defend the stack yourself.
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