I've got to send it to your server so you can spit it back when I say a fancy word? What's worse, I pay you to just store/retrieve text? Why wouldn't I just write to a file?

"A widely held view is that employing a large language model (LLM) as the decoder allows the model to leverage the prior distribution of language, leading to improved OCR performance. However, the downside is equally evident: as the output sequence lengthens, the accumulated KV cache drives up memory consumption and progressively slows down generation."

Don’t quote me, but I think the other methods rely on passing general detail/commands and file paths to Gemini to avoid the context overhead you’re thinking about.

https://github.com/BeehiveInnovations/pal-mcp-server

They recently added native tables, albeit still just a few data types, you can store stuff in and use in workflows.

In the video @ https://github.com/cztomsik/ava, I see "Workflows" but not in the app. What are these, and are they coming to the app?

Are quick tools basically the same as saving a playground prompt with variables?

It sounds like the most crucial thing for you would be to identify what it is that makes you crack after weeks of not buying it (not sure if that's the same as not drinking). Address and work through that, see how it goes. Your mind and body are clearly recognizing the negative affects and trying to steer you in one direction... but there's still something that brings you back and you need to figure out what that is.

Godspeed, my friend.