Hi Product Hunt, Hiten here 🤓. We launched FYI two months ago, and I’m super excited to share our new desktop app with you today. Our goal is to solve your biggest problem with documents: Finding them. Documents don’t just live in the cloud, they’re on your computer too. That’s why we’re launching FYI Desktop, one of the most requested features. Once you install FYI Desktop, you’ll be able to search and organize all your desktop documents alongside your cloud documents, all from one place! You can start using FYI Desktop on your Mac or Windows computer today and your local files will be added to FYI. We’re super eager to solve the problem of finding your documents no matter where they are, in the best way possible. To do that, we need your opinion. Please take a look at FYI Desktop and tell us what you think. You can use our in-app Drift chat, @usefyi on Twitter or email me at hiten@usefyi.com or @hnshah on Twitter.

Congrats once again guys. Been using and loving FYI so far, can't wait to give this a try! It'll be awesome if you guys consider adding support for videos although I know they aren't documents but with apps like Loom becoming so popular and video marketing becoming so important, finding videos is also a pain. In fact, I've tried searching for videos on FYI only to realise they aren't documents.

I don't know how I lived without FYI. I don't want to think about what life would be like without it. FYI seems to launch a magical elf who lives inside my computer and knows exactly where all the files are. It saves me so much time from wandering through folders and cloud drives. If you don't have it, get it.

❤️Marie here. The larger a company is, the more likely that important documents are sitting on people’s computers. And the more likely they are to get lost. I personally experienced this when I worked in corporate America at companies with 10s & 100s of thousands of employees. Meanwhile, there are more document apps than ever. They’re really easy to use… until you’re trying to find documents 😅. No matter what size company we’re working at, most of us are living in a document mess. We don’t remember what folder or app our documents are in. Who made them. Even titles and keywords are a distant memory. We just can’t find our documents. We built FYI to solve this painful problem. Letting people search for documents across their apps using FYI was a huge improvement, but you told us we had to do more. That’s why we’re launching FYI Desktop on Product Hunt today. This is one of the top 3 most requested features and we’re excited to release it. Our goal with FYI is to be the best way to find your documents, no matter where they are. We’ll always have a free plan for anyone to use. We’re eager to hear what you think and what we should do next. Tell us what you want 😻.

Congrats @hnshah and @marie_prokopets!

I NEVER go looking for a document in Google Drive or Dropbox anymore...which feels amazing. I open a new tab (which is now set to FYI) - and 9 times out of 10, the document i'm looking for is right there in my activity feed. (because either I viewed it in the last 7 days, or one of my coworkers shared it with me). Saves me a lot of time hunting for documents.

Congrats team, great work on the product 👍

👍 Congrats on the release!

Well done @hiten and crew. Beautifully designed 👌

Amazing App. Makes files management so easier. Great Idea.

I like it, but it highjacked my new tab in Chrome... is there a way to turn that function off without deactivating the extension completely.

Dang! So good. I’ll use and report back more.

You are moving so fast with the development of FYI. Very nice.

This is a great idea! Although, I'm curious about the security of the documents on fyi. How much information of the docs can you (fyi) read, parse and organize? Can you elaborate a little bit more on how the document owner can keep their information protected?

At a first glance, it looks lovely. 👍 The idea makes sense - search/see all your docs in one place. Would love to check it out.

Hi. Trying to install the windows version but Windows Defender won't let it install? Am I missing something.

Dear FYI - I use my gmail account for business. Please don't block me, or force me to create another email address to use your product.

Pretty cool idea @hnshah. Cant wait to try it. Quick question - The hero image on your website shows Evernote....but there is no Evernote integration?

It gives me a ton of warnings when trying to install the Windows version and then when I try to install it, it says I don't have permissions to access. So I couldn't install and gave up. Just FYI :p

can you not search by recent activity for google drive docs that you are actually apart of not just the entire organization's recent activity? Makes it useless otherwise IMO