Common questions, answered honestly.

Talavine brings your emails, documents, notes, and calendars together for smarter answers and useful work. Ask what changed, prepare for a client meeting, or have an AI helper draft a follow-up. Your saved information stays in Talavine when you change to another AI it supports.

No. Talavine syncs over IMAP, so anything it does (reading, filing, flagging, sending) shows up in Apple Mail, Outlook, Thunderbird, eM Client, or whatever client you already use, and vice versa. Keep the client you love and run Talavine alongside it, or let it become the new one. Either way, everything that flows through it becomes knowledge you can ask about.

Yes. Ask questions, continue saved conversations, and choose among supported configured models. Talavine finds relevant information in your hub to help with the question. Your saved sources and conversations remain in your profile when you switch AI. Models have different capabilities, and answers still need checking.

Yes. Imported Sources accepts ChatGPT export ZIPs or conversations.json, plus supported readable files through the general archive importer. Your configured AI makes imported material searchable; cloud AI may receive relevant excerpts. Optional file refresh watches an export file you replace yourself. Agent Library collectors are a separate option for supported signed-in accounts and may return incomplete recollections.

Inside Talavine, change to another supported model while keeping your saved information and conversations. You can also export selected knowledge as readable Markdown and move a profile into another Talavine installation. Other AI apps have different import formats; a Talavine profile is not a universal chatbot backup.

An AI agent is a helper you give a job, such as preparing a weekly client update or collecting information. Choose what it can use, when it should run, and when it must ask you first. The Agent Library includes collectors for supported AI accounts. What a helper can do depends on its connections and permissions; check its results and any missing information.

Start with familiar things: your email accounts, documents, notes, and questions. The guided setup helps you connect a source and choose a supported AI. Some account connections need additional provider or administrator setup.

People whose useful information is scattered: business owners, consultants, families, and anyone tired of gathering the same emails, documents, and notes before asking a question.

Talavine synchronizes the accounts you authorize into your local profile. Configured cloud AI may receive relevant excerpts during processing and answering. You control your connections and AI settings; local storage does not mean that every operation stays on the computer.

Talavine never uses your data to train a model. Your Talavine profile and communication memory live on your machine. When you enable a cloud model, relevant request context is sent to the selected provider under your configured routing and privacy policy, and your agreement with that provider governs what they do with it. You choose which models can be used.

Yes. Talavine can route work to a local model through Ollama for inboxes that should never leave the computer. Cloud models are an opt-in for jobs where quality is worth it.

Your profile is an ordinary folder on your machine (under your local app data). Uninstalling the app doesn't erase your inbox or your custom trackers. They're yours to keep, copy, or delete.

No, not by default. Agents draft. The send button is yours. You can promote a specific kind of message to auto-send after you trust the pattern, but nothing is auto-send out of the box.

No, not by default. Deleting, archiving, and rule changes are approval-gated. The agent can suggest what to clean up; you decide what actually goes.

Every agent has a pause toggle on the team dashboard. Pause stops new work immediately. You can also delete the role and start over without losing your inbox.

Corrections become preferences. Mark a draft wrong, recategorize a sender, or flip an approval; the agent updates the way it judges similar things next time.

Yes, during the public preview. Download, install, connect an inbox. There's no paywall on the desktop app.

Only if you choose a cloud model. If you run a local model with Ollama, the only cost is your computer's electricity. You can mix: run private mail through local models and use a cloud key for the harder writing.

Two layers keep it in check, and both are yours to set. Spend Guard can cap daily AI spend, and each worker gets its own daily cloud budget: when a cap is reached, agents pause and tell you why instead of quietly running up a tab. And because cloud providers bill your API keys directly, set caps and alerts on the provider side too as a backstop.

Yes. Talavine ships as a Windows desktop app and an Apple Silicon macOS app bundle for M-series Macs. You can start on one machine and pair another supported Windows PC or Mac over your local network later.

A normal modern laptop is fine for the app and for indexing your messages. Local models prefer more RAM and a recent GPU; cloud models work on anything.

No. Download the installer, run it, follow the welcome flow. Talavine can guide setup and repair common local AI, browser, OAuth, and firewall problems when it sees them.

Outlook signs in with one click, and Gmail's guided setup takes about ten minutes. The app diagnoses common problems in plain English: if the network or sign-in fails, it explains what's wrong and what to click.

Your data, drafts, and skills are local files. You can copy them, archive them, or move them to another machine. Leaving is as easy as quitting the app.