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Chrome helps you visit information. Om-E helps you own it.
Chatbots answer and forget. Page assistants answer the tab. Notes apps store but don't think. Om-E is the connected version of all three — and it acts.
| Om-E | Cloud chatbot | Browser page assistant | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where your knowledge lives | On your machine, in KBs you own and can open | In the vendor's cloud, under their retention and training policies | Nowhere — the page context evaporates with the tab |
| Context per turn | You choose: three levels, plus load vs attach for knowledge | Opaque — memory you can't fully audit or constrain | The active tab, full stop |
| After the answer | Saved as a topic with provenance; reusable in any future chat | Buried in an ever-growing history | Forgotten |
| Grounding | Answers cite the captured topics they came from | Model recall, sometimes with web links | The one page in front of you |
| Agency | Plans, searches, captures, compares, drafts — then saves the work | Responds to what you paste | Summarises what's on screen |
| Models & cost | Hundreds of models across every major lab; per-token, hard-capped | The vendor's models at the vendor's subscription | Bundled with the browser, no choice |
The honest version
If you want one-off answers about anything, a cloud chatbot is great — we use them too. If you want a quick summary of the page you're reading, the built-in helper is right there.
Om-E is for when the answer is supposed to go somewhere: into a project, a decision, a document, a knowledge base your future self will query. That's the part the others don't do — the remembering, the organising, the reusing, and the proof of where every claim came from.