How to Use WindowSill with Ollama for Private AI Writing
WindowSill now integrates with Ollama, allowing users to run AI writing assistance locally on their own machine. This setup ensures complete privacy since no data is sent to external servers, and works entirely offline. The guide walks through installing Ollama, pulling a model, and connecting it to WindowSill.
Background
- WindowSill is a Mac app that offers an AI-powered writing assistant, similar to tools like Grammarly or ChatGPT's writing features, but designed to work locally on your own computer rather than sending text to cloud servers.
- Ollama is a free, open-source tool that lets you run large language models (LLMs) — the same kind of AI behind ChatGPT — directly on your own computer, without an internet connection or sending data to third parties.
- This blog post explains how to connect WindowSill to Ollama, giving users the ability to use AI writing help (rewriting, summarizing, continuing text, etc.) while keeping all their writing private and offline. This matters because many writers and professionals are concerned about their data being used to train AI models or being exposed to cloud services.