Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)

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A PKMS (Personal Knowledge Management System) VS Code extension - "AS Notes"

https://www.appsoftware.com/products/knowledge-management/as...

It implements [[wikilinking]], backlinking, task management into VS Code. The idea is to bring Logseq / Obsidian capability to VS Code.

The blurb:

If you already live in VS Code, why manage your notes somewhere else? AS Notes brings the power of wikilink-based knowledge management - the kind you'd find in Obsidian or Logseq - directly into your editor. No Electron wrapper. No separate app. No syncing headaches. Just your markdown files, your Git repo, and the editor you already know.

Why AS Notes? Your data stays local. No cloud sync, no telemetry, no accounts. Your notes are plain .md files in a folder you control. Git-friendly by design. Every note is a .md file - diff them, branch them, review them. Your knowledge base gets the same versioning discipline as your code. Lightweight. A local SQLite database (powered by WASM - no native dependencies) keeps everything fast without bloating your workspace. Key Features Wikilinks Type [[ to trigger page selection and autocomplete. Links resolve to .md files anywhere in your workspace - not just the current folder. If the target doesn't exist, it's created automatically, useful for forward-referencing pages you plan to write later.

Renaming a page offers to update every reference across your workspace. Hover tooltips show the target file, whether it exists, and how many other pages link to it.

Backlinks The Backlinks panel shows every page that links to the file you're currently editing, with surrounding line text for context. A straightforward way to see how ideas connect across your knowledge base.

Open it with Ctrl+Alt+B - it stays in sync as you navigate between files.

AS Notes Backlinks Task Management A lightweight task system built on standard markdown checkboxes. Press Ctrl+Shift+Enter on any line to cycle through states (unchecked → checked → plain text). The Tasks panel in the Explorer sidebar aggregates every task across your entire knowledge base, grouped by page - filter to show only unchecked items, or toggle completion directly from the panel.

Page Aliases Define aliases in YAML front matter so multiple names resolve to the same page. [[JS]] and [[ECMAScript]] can both navigate to JavaScript.md. Backlink counts include alias references, and rename tracking updates aliases in front matter automatically.

Daily Journal Press Ctrl+Alt+J to create or open today's journal entry. AS Notes generates a dated markdown file from a customisable template - add your own sections, prompts, or front matter to shape your daily workflow. Journal files are indexed instantly, so wikilinks and backlinks work from the moment the file is created.

AS Notes translates nested wikilinks when rendering markdown previews so links navigate correctly. Works alongside other markdown extensions - Mermaid diagrams, for example.

VS Code Agent Kanban (just made it to the front page)

https://www.appsoftware.com/products/developer-tools/agent-k...

It's a VS Code extension that implements a Kanban board backed by markdown files. It's set up to allow you to communicate with GitHub Copilot chat via markdown files, so you have a clear permanent record of your considerations, decisions and actions. I'd been getting great results with a similar but more manual workflow, so I built this to make managing the markdown files easier and to give me the ability to visually organise with some shortcut commands.

Just a small project to assist with some stuff at work, but trying my hand at vibe-coding a "data science playground" to try and level-up a couple of people into feeling comfortable using Claude to write data analysis tools. I generated a bunch of synthetic data, that looks like stuff we might encounter on the job, and embedded trends into the data that can be revealed through statistical analysis. I encrypted the answers and put a lil LLM in front of the answer file. You submit answers to the LLM and it tells you warm/cold by looking at the answer file. Hoping to basically gamify the learning process to make it easier/faster to get data-driven results.

These past weeks I finally organized some ideas I'd been sitting on and wrote two posts:

From Agentic Reasoning to Deterministic Scripts: on why AI agents shouldn't reason from scratch on every repeated task, and how execution history could compile into deterministic automations

https://juanpabloaj.com/2026/03/08/from-agentic-reasoning-to...

The silent filter: on cognitive erosion as a quieter, more probable civilizational risk than a catastrophic event

https://juanpabloaj.com/2026/02/27/the-silent-filter/