quivr/docs/intro.mdx

---
title: 🚀 Welcome to Quivr
description: Quivr is your Second Brain that can acts as your personal assistant.
---

[Quivr](https://quivr.app) is your **Second Brain** that can acts as your **personal assistant**. 

It can:
- **Answer questions** to the **files** that you uploaded
- **Interact** with the **applications** that you connected to Quivr

<Tip>
**Our goal** is to make Quivr the **best open-source personal assistant** that is powered by your knowledge and your applications 🔥
It will remain open-source
</Tip>

## What does it do ? 


<div style={{ textAlign: 'center' }}>
  <video width="640" height="480" controls>
    <source src="https://quivr-cms.s3.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/singlestore_demo_quivr_232893659c.mp4" type="video/mp4"/>
    Your browser does not support the video tag.
  </video>
</div>

## How to get started ? 👀

<Tip>
It takes less than **5 seconds** to get started with Quivr. You can even use your Google account to sign up.
</Tip>

<Steps>
  <Step title="Create an account">
    Go to [Quivr](https://quivr.app) and create an account.
  </Step>
  <Step title="Upload a file">
    Upload a file to Quivr.
  </Step>
  <Step title="Ask Questions to Quivr">
    Ask questions to Quivr about your file.
  </Step>
</Steps>




## How can you leverage Quivr ? 🚀

You can use Quivr to:

<AccordionGroup>
<Accordion title="Search in files" icon="searchengin">
  Quivr allows you to easily ask questions about your files
</Accordion>
<Accordion title="Cross-search" icon="shuffle">
  Tired of Cross referencing your information between files ?
</Accordion>
<Accordion title="Store your knowledge" icon="database">
  Store all your knowledge in one place
</Accordion>
<Accordion title="Share your knowledge" icon="share">
  Share your knowledge with your team by leveraging the collaboration features
</Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>


## Features 🤗

### Public & Private Brains

You can create **public** and **private** brains.

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="Public" icon="globe">
  A public brain is a brain that is searchable by everyone on Quivr. You can make a brain public by clicking on the **public** button on the brain page.
  </Accordion>
  <Accordion title="Private" icon="lock">
  A private brain is a brain that is only searchable by you. You can make a brain private by clicking on the **private** button on the brain page.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>


You can share your brains with a set of people by using their emails. This means that you can **collaborate** with your team on a brain without making it public.

### Ask Questions

You can **ask questions** to Quivr. Quivr will **answer** your questions by leveraging the **knowledge** that you uploaded to Quivr.

### Custom Personality 

You can **customize** the personality of Quivr by changing the **prompt** of your brain. You could tell your brain to always answer with a **funny** or **serious** tone or act like a **robot** or a **human**.