Links & More

A modern WPF application built with .NET 10 and WPF-UI, designed to help you organize and manage your links and more.

Features

• Modern Dashboard: A clean, organized view of all your saved content using Windows 11 Fluent Design with elegant diagonal gradient cards.
• Content Types:
  • 🔗 Links: Save URLs for quick access with one-click opening.
  • 📝 Notes: Store important text and thoughts.
  • 💻 Snippets: Keep code or text snippets ready to copy.
  • 🔐 Passwords: Securely store passwords with Windows Hello biometric authentication.
• Smart Categorization: Group your links and notes into custom categories (e.g., Work, Personal, Dev).
• Instant Search: Real-time filtering of all items by title or content as you type.

🔐 Password Vault

• Secure Encryption: Passwords encrypted using Windows DPAPI (Data Protection API)
• Windows Hello Integration: Unlock passwords with fingerprint, face recognition, or PIN
• Auto-Lock Security: Passwords automatically re-lock after viewing
• One-Click Copy: Copy unlocked passwords to clipboard instantly

🧠 Semantic Vault (AI Search)

• 100% Local & Private: All AI processing happens natively on your device. Absolutely no cloud APIs or data telemetry.
• Meaning-Based Search: Uses the all-MiniLM-L6-v2 ONNX model to understand the concept behind your search, finding related links even if you don't use exact keywords.
• Auto-Indexing: Links are seamlessly vectorized in the background as you browse or add new items.

⚡ Quick Actions

• One-click Open for links.
• One-click Copy to Clipboard for notes and snippets.
• Easy Edit and Delete functionality.
• Customizable Themes: Full support for Light and Dark modes, or sync with your Windows System theme.
• Data Management:
  • Robust local SQLite database using Entity Framework Core.
  • Seamless automatic migration from legacy JSON storage.
  • Easily find and manage your database location via Settings.
• Performance: Optimized for speed with virtualization for large collections of items.

Security

• DPAPI Encryption: All passwords are encrypted using Windows Data Protection API with user-scoped AES-256 equivalent encryption
• No Cloud Storage: All data stored locally on your machine for complete privacy
• Biometric Authentication: Leverages Windows Hello for secure, convenient password access
• Atomic File Writes: Data integrity protected with atomic file replacement to prevent corruption

Technologies

• Framework: .NET 10.0 (Windows 10.0.19041.0 SDK)
• UI Library: WPF-UI (Windows 11 Fluent Design)
• MVVM: CommunityToolkit.Mvvm
• Database: Entity Framework Core (SQLite)
• AI Engine: Microsoft.ML.OnnxRuntime & Microsoft.ML.Tokenizers
• Security: Windows DPAPI, Windows Hello (UserConsentVerifier)

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Windows 10 (build 19041) or later for Windows Hello support
• .NET 10 SDK
• Visual Studio 2026 (recommended)

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/ian-cowley/LinksAndMore-.git
   

2. Open LinksAndMore.sln in Visual Studio.
3. Build and run the project.

Development

To build the project from the command line:

dotnet build

Credits

Developed by Ian Cowley and Antigravity (Google DeepMind).

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.