🕯️ ECHOES — Memories Never Die | A Local AI Memory Keeper

Some memories deserve more than a place in our photo gallery. They deserve to be remembered, revisited, and told again. For the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Week 4 — Ghost in the Machine, I built ECHOES, a local-first AI memory keeper powered by Gemma 4. What I Built ECHOES is a personal AI memory assistant that allows people to preserve meaningful memories, stories, and photographs, then ask questions about them using a locally running AI model. The idea came from the thought that our memories are scattered across old photographs, notes, and conversations. What if we could bring them together and have an AI help us revisit those moments? With ECHOES, users can: 🕯️ Preserve memories with a person's name, title, story, and photograph. 📖 Browse and search saved memories in a Memory Vault. 💬 Ask questions about their saved memories. 🧠 Get responses generated by Gemma 4. 🔒 Keep their memories and AI interactions local. I interpreted Ghost in the Mac