Your Inbox Knows Too Much: Parsli for the Privacy Paranoid
Parsli is a local-first AI assistant designed to manage shipment tracking without compromising user privacy. It connects to Gmail locally to extract and classify shipment information from emails, avoiding the need to send data to the cloud. The project is still in its early stages, with plans to expand its capabilities to include other input sources like SMS and voice messages.
- ▪Parsli aims to address privacy concerns by processing shipment emails locally.
- ▪The assistant extracts tracking information and builds timelines from various shipment-related emails.
- ▪Future developments for Parsli include integrating additional input sources and enhancing observability.
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| Canonical URL | https://dev.to/olgabraginskaya/your-inbox-knows-too-much-parsli-for-the-privacy-paranoid-7ah |
| Publication time | Sun, 24 May 2026 15:17:03 +0000 |
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 1050562) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Olga Braginskaya Posted on May 24 Your Inbox Knows Too Much: Parsli for the Privacy Paranoid #devchallenge #gemmachallenge #gemma Gemma 4 Challenge: Build With Gemma 4 Submission This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Build with Gemma 4 What I Built Every few weeks there is another story about leaked customer data or a breached SaaS platform.
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