Socrates Reviews

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Socrates is appreciated by customers for its comprehensive document analysis, responsive customer support, and potential for deep insights. Some users have noted minor issues with local model speed and UI improvements. With an overall rating of 4.7 and a 60-day money-back guarantee, Socrates is a solid buy for those in need of instant answers from private files on Win, Mac, or web.

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Member since: Dec 2011Deals bought: 6
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Posted: Nov 12, 2024

Exactly what I needed for my research!

I am so grateful to Jon for this app!! I have been utilizing this app everyday. I had a few ui tweak requests as feedback and Jon graciously responded and implemented them. I have throw as many different pdf's, topics, questions I can come up with and so far it has not let me down. There has been a few moments where the ai model needs time to update but nothing that takes longer than a few minutes. I just go back to the home screen and ask my question again and boom no issue. I purchased a tier 3 license.

Pros:
Everything works and I think the desktop app is going to get better and better.

Cons:
Nothing yet.

All in all, if you are worried about your data or privacy this is the way to go.

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Jon_Socrates

Nov 13, 2024

Greatly appreciate the review! We love the feedback -- thanks for the patience during server updates -- we're always adding to and improving our infrastructure to support more use cases.

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Member since: Jan 2020Deals bought: 133
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Posted: Nov 11, 2024

amazing tool!

at first I was sceptic but than I started to upload data to it and keep asking questions about the data
there is no doubt that DeepDive Preforms well even on a 250 pages documnet and is able to extract all the important and info and what you ask him

I am also trying the local for some more confident documents and it is also working very good in my opinion though my laptop is not that quicly for the processing but when I gave it enough time it was very good as well for my needs
all in all - worth buying for sure!

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Jon_Socrates

Nov 13, 2024

Thank you, thank you for the review! More local improvements are coming soon!

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Member since: Sep 2024Deals bought: 162
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Posted: Nov 10, 2024

Amazing Tool with so much potential!!

such power features
- applying a prompt to each section of a document when AI so often skips one of 50 items
- extracting columns from a collection of documents (ie build an excel sheet with 20 columns from the contents of 50pdfs where each column is a query)

for sure a keeper and so excited where this will go and already a happy user

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Jon_Socrates

Nov 11, 2024

Greatly appreciate the review! Big updates coming (roadmap.asksocrates.app) -- please keep the feedback coming!

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Posted: Nov 8, 2024

Hmmm?! Ok .., but....

My experience.

It is immediately better than Afforia, but slightly worse than LMNotebook.

Local use:

I use GPT4ALL and generate answers quickly and easily with various local models (LLAMA etc.).
With Socrates, the speed collapses, i.e. I receive output in slow motion, which is not usable for me and also not comprehensible with the same hardware and prompt used. But it's still a beta ;-)

Online use:

Very fast and if you don't want to use Google, Afforia or other beishers, a very good solution for querying documents.

Pros:
Everything works and I think the desktop app is great, keep it up!

Con:
I have several documents on my laptop trained as a chat for an “online” chat via the app. I also used the Deep function for these documents.

Now I wanted to continue editing on my desktop computer, but unfortunately, despite having an identical account (Tier2), I don't have access to the chats that have already been created, so of course I don't have access to the trained data either.

If I want to continue my work on the desktop, I would not only have to create everything again, but also pay for a deep training again. Since I had already spent 750 documents on my laptop, I would have to spend the same amount again just to be able to work with the same data.

Hmmm? Not good.

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Jon_Socrates

Jon_Socrates

Nov 8, 2024

Hello, thanks for the feedback.

1. Syncing Desktop & Web chats is the first thing on our roadmap: https://roadmap.asksocrates.app/ -- should be shipped within 1-2 weeks.
We originally didn't sync the 2 to maximize privacy (docs on the desktop app almost entirely don't touch our servers), but clearly users want this feature, so it will be done!

2. Re local use: Yes, we've identified the issue...

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Edited Nov 3, 2024

great for long pdf summaries

Below is my reasons why I purchased and Love Socrates:
Combined with Deep Dive feature this give me a Comprehensive Document Analysis for my PDF's - Too long didn't read
Accurate and Detailed Outputs: Yes this has delivered detailed results for me.
Gives me ideas and summary
Allows me to break-down the contents of those PDF's into sections for idea generation

The AppSumo reviews helped in my choice to try it.
I got it - I love it - Thank You

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Jon_Socrates

Nov 4, 2024

Thank you very much for the review! Glad it delivered for you.

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