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tarr1124

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About tarr1124

Software engineer in Japan. Building Rill, a Markdown + Git knowledge system for Claude Code. https://rill.md

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    Honestly, "note app" is a stretch. What I wanted was a knowledge system modeled on PoIC, a Japanese index-card method that predated Evernote. I tried building it on Obsidian and ot…

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    Comment #47909117

    Yeah, fair. The third-person thing is an old habit from parsing parents before I reply, but you're right that in a direct reply it reads cold. Second person from here on.

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    Comment #47908435

    Selling would be nice, but a lot of solo builders are mainly in it for the building. The note app I wanted didn't exist anywhere. I was close to hiring a contractor to build it, so…

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    Three notetaking app attempts sitting in my private repos, all stalled at the gap between idea and free time. With Claude Code I finally got the one I really wanted out in two mont…

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    I wrote it. English is my second language, so I reach for "what X is pointing at" constructions a lot — partly as a self-check that I've parsed the parent correctly. If any specifi…

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    Comment #47889851

    Git is great as the durable layer, but what fiatpandas is pointing at is a bit different — real-time awareness that the agent is active right now, not a retrospective diff. I've be…

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    Obsidian and these newer tools share markdown + local files, but they're aimed at different assumptions about who reads and edits the vault. Obsidian's default is "human reads and …

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