GitHub - wslyvh/paperweight: Paperweight scans your inbox to map your digital footprint, then helps you take back control and delete your data. Local-first and open source.
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Paperweight scans your inbox to map your digital footprint, then helps you take back control and delete your data. Local-first and open source. - wslyvh/paperweight

I’m excited to introduce Paperweight, a local-first open-source desktop app I’ve been building to help people understand and reduce their digital footprint.

Your inbox is a paper trail of every company that has ever had your data. Every account you created, every service you tried, every online purchase. It’s all connected to your email. Most people have 100+ accounts they’ve forgotten about, each a potential security, or privacy risk. For me the final push was the Odido data breach in the Netherlands. I hadn’t been a customer for more than 8 years, but all my data was still in their systems.

What it does:

  • Account inventory — Maps every company that has ever emailed you, with risks classifications and recommendations for action.
  • Bulk unsubscribe — Find and unsubscribe from any marketing and mailing lists (auto RFC 8058 where supported).
  • Breach alerts — Alerts when any company you’ve been in contact with has been breached (via HaveIBeenPwned).
  • GDPR requests — Generates pre-filled GDPR requests in multiple languages.

Supports Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail, Proton (via Bridge) and any other email provider via IMAP.

Privacy approach:

Everything runs on your machine. Email content, credentials, and connection details never leave your device. No telemetry, no cloud sync, no analytics. The code is fully open source and auditable on GitHub.

Most alternatives in this space all require your to share your data through their services. Some of them have actually been caught selling your data. Paperweight is the only tool I’m aware of that does this entirely local and is open-source.

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Feedback welcome! Thanks

    • wslyvh@lemmy.mlOP
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      9 hours ago

      Sure, like most projects I use AI assistance a lot for most of my work these days, ngl. Its helps me plan, research and code new ideas/features and makes a lot of my work easier. Having said that, I fully understand and share people’s feelings about yolo, vibe-coded slop. I’ve been a software engineer for 20+ years. AI helps with a lot, but also feels like the honeymoon phase is wearing off actually. It doesn’t give me the joy of building stuff. I still test, review and ship everything myself. You can check my Github history that I’ve been doing this way before recent AI hype.

      Either way, the idea and execution is 100% me. I’m building something I want, use, and care about myself. Whether I’ve used AI is not too relevant, imo. It’s that all alternatives have been caught selling your data (Unroll), heavily rely their centralized services or require you to give up your data in order to remove it. Which is ironic. Paperweight is the only tool I’m aware of that does this entirely local and is open-source.

      P.S if its quality you’re worried about, Paperweight has been audited through Google’s CASA assessment and Apple’s developer verification (admittedly, not a super high bar).