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lencx
ChatGPT Desktop Application (Mac, Windows and Linux)

Tauri not only makes native applications with web technologies (html, js, css), but also packages the url into a desktop application that interacts well with the operating system (e.g. file reading and writing, system menus, shortcuts, script injection, etc.). It is easy to extend the limitations of web pages in the operating system.

decremental
I was just looking at Tauri yesterday. How do you feel about using native web views? Made me worry about having to deal with subtle incompatibilities ala web design.
lencx
Regarding web compatibility, it's actually ok, you can use front-end packaging tools to output the minimum browser version required. But tauri itself is more demanding on the system, for example in higher versions windows will use edge by default, lower versions need to bootstrap, or package specific browser versions into the application (but it will increase the size of the application significantly).
elashri
Seems interesting, It would be great to add support for 'aarch64-apple-darwin' build in tauri.
lencx
The current installer is also working, as my computer is a Mac M1 and everything works fine.
dmix
Were sharable URLs added by ChatGPT recently or this app? I've wanted that for a while.

I noticed that's an option in the desktop app (for ex: https://chatgpt-static.s3.amazonaws.com/chats/yc98747.html) Sharing screenshots of long outputs was annoying and not mobile friendly. This would help popularize it.

Edit: nm I didnt read the REAME, it uses this:

https://github.com/liady/chatgpt-pdf

lencx
It already supports liady/chatgpt-pdf, in addition, it also supports script injection, and slash command (synchronizing data from f/awesome-chatgpt-prompts and filling it quickly with slash commands).

There are many more features that you can learn about by checking out the readme.