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Re: Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion

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Fully local, but can't integrate with any local LLM?

I do think a fully OSS Obsidian-like that syncs natively is an impressive accomplishment, though the usefulness of this is limited with OSX being the only supported platform. If an Android app is in the works I'll definitely follow the project!

Re: Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion

#14

Fully local, but can't integrate with any local LLM? I do think a fully OSS Obsidian-like that syncs natively is an impressive accomplishment, though the usefulness of this is limited with OSX being the only supported platform. If an Android app is in the works I'll definitely follow the project!

Got it. MCP Server and CLI is agent-agnostic, so should work with local models/harnesses, but we'll look into more explicit docs around this.

What IDE or harness do you use? We'll take a look.

Re: Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion

#15

Is this following the Open Knowledge Format proposed by Google earlier this month or just a name collision? https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/how-th...

Two bits:

1. Name collison happenstance. We'd locked in the npm package and domains prior to their announcement.

2. Our templates are Open Knowledge Format compliant and we have an explicit quickstart around making an OKF knowledge base. You can think of OKF as a format/standard for the content, and OpenKnowledge (our app) as an IDE/editor for any type of markdown based content.

Re: Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion

#16

Sounds cool. How do agents know what else is going on in the doc? They have an embedded browser and they do like mutation observer type stuff? Or does the integration do polling?

Right now you'd simply prompt it. Working on more direct integration. Turns out they don't make event based back and forth easy.

Re: Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion

#17
Congratulations on the launch. It looks neat!

On a side note, I find it interesting that a few recent projects are going for the Open Knowledge name. The Open Knowledge Foundation (https://okfn.org) is one of the first/largest proponents of the open data movement (think of it as a Free Software Foundation but for data, not software). They started in 2004 and developed many of the open data licenses and widely used infrastructure tools like CKAN (an open data portal platform).

Nothing to add, just found it interesting.

Disclaimer: I worked there for a few years.

Re: Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion

#18
post #14

Fully local, but can't integrate with any local LLM? I do think a fully OSS Obsidian-like that syncs natively is an impressive accomplishment, though the usefulness of this is limited with OSX being the only supported platform. If an Android app is in the works I'll definitely follow the project!

Got it. MCP Server and CLI is agent-agnostic, so should work with local models/harnesses, but we'll look into more explicit docs around this. What IDE or harness do you use? We'll take a look.

Personally I just want to see more support for local LLMs. I haven't been doing much coding lately but am interested in setting up Qwen 3.6 if I can obtain the hardware

Re: Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion

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post #15

Is this following the Open Knowledge Format proposed by Google earlier this month or just a name collision? https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/how-th...

Two bits: 1. Name collison happenstance. We'd locked in the npm package and domains prior to their announcement. 2. Our templates are Open Knowledge Format compliant and we have an explicit quickstart around making an OKF knowledge base. You can think of OKF as a format/standard for the content, and OpenKnowledge (our app) as an IDE/editor for any type of markdown based content.

Neat, I’ve created a couple OKF based knowledge bases, this looks like a nice way to work with them.

https://github.com/jacquescorbytuech/crm-open-knowledge-wiki

https://github.com/jacquescorbytuech/running-knowledge-base

Re: Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion

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post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Two bits: 1. Name collison happenstance. We'd locked in the npm package and domains prior to their announcement. 2. Our templates are Open Knowledge Format compliant and we have an explicit quickstart around making an OKF knowledge base. You can think of OKF as a format/standard for the content, and OpenKnowledge (our app) as an IDE/editor for any type of markdown based content.

Neat, I’ve created a couple OKF based knowledge bases, this looks like a nice way to work with them. https://github.com/jacquescorbytuech/crm-open-knowledge-wiki https://github.com/jacquescorbytuech/running-knowledge-base

Sweet, let me know the experience, we're actively thinking about how to make OKF KBs editing a good experience. E.g. a linter or other conformant mode.
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