Nothing personal, but there genuinely ought to be consequences for using "open source" in the context of something like this tied to proprietary AI services. Local models should be the first choice in that framing.
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#104Nice. the frontmatter question is the one i'd want answered before trusting it: when an agent edits a file does it round-trip YAML frontmatter and nested code fences cleanly, or does that stuff get mangled? every "wysiwyg markdown" tool i've tried falls apart there. Also is the CLI cross-platform or mac-only like the app?
Re:front-matter, we do optimistic parsing of it, haven't seen any issues with it. If we detect invalid markdown we return warnings to the agent in the MCP response so it knows it needs to fix it.
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#105Looks solid. The Obsidian migration path is honestly the make-or-break.
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#106I really wanted to like this, but unfortunately couldn't see how it improves my experience over Obsidian or VS Code. The fact that I have to juggle between OpenKnowledge and Codex to engage the AI, while also accepting a barebones Obsidian, is a real bummer. From what I can tell, you are saving me a few key strokes with moving prompts around. What I really want is the AI to live IN the app, like VS Code, and then mov…
I tried other stuff but nothing imo can beat its utility to me. I also personally wouldn't want an AI or anyone else looking through my vault or want AI in it.
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
Since Obsidian is just markdown, you can just open an Obsidian vault with OpenKnowledge. We made it so that most Obsidian syntax is supported, like wikilinks. For Notion, we don't have a migration tool, but you can try the export to markdown approach. Recommend trying it to get a feel, and if are looking to migrate and facing friction let me know details.
Obsidian is a lot more than "just markdown" though. For example, with the appropriate plugins like dataview and charts, it's possible to create dashboards, lists, and tables that update automatically based on data elements present in documents or documents themselves. I use it to have views over my to-do lists (daily routine items, tasks that are overdue, upcoming tasks, etc), make dashboards, and show lists of docum…
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#109I would love to try it, can I sign up for a Linux desktop app notify-list?