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Re: Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases

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A lot of people are posting their similar projects in this thread. Is there anyone making a markdown knowledge management app that feels truly Mac-native, i.e. written in AppKit or SwiftUI rather than as a web page with an Electron/Tauri/whatever wrapper?

(No offense intended to OP, this looks like a cool project; I'm just looking for something else.)

Re: Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases

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Nice work, couple bits of feedback * The editor doesn't seem to support code fence literals (as in I can't type ``` to get a code block) * At very large markdown file sizes the performance is not great. I'm building an obsidian-style markdown editor (for my own AI knowledge base product!) over at https://github.com/kenforthewin/atomic-editor

Atomic looks quite interesting, and the "wiki synthesis" is particularly interesting:

I've been working on a suite of skills and a tiny MCP (also SQLite + SQLite-vec based) where the focus is on making it easy to produce "atoms" from quick brain dumps.

The chunking problem is "bypassed" by declaring each section a chunk, and having the LLMs rewrite drafts to sections that chunk well. That means lots of redundancy, and no "As explained above".

The intended reader isn't a human, but rather agents that generate human-friendlier prose, for different target audiences. By assuming the reader is an "expert", the idea is that it's much cheaper to mass-produce reviewed "atoms".

Itching to try that workflow with Atomic or Tolaria.

Re: Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases

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A lot of people are posting their similar projects in this thread. Is there anyone making a markdown knowledge management app that feels truly Mac-native, i.e. written in AppKit or SwiftUI rather than as a web page with an Electron/Tauri/whatever wrapper? (No offense intended to OP, this looks like a cool project; I'm just looking for something else.)

Yes, check out mdnb.app

Re: Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

>open-source

And I was going to say Mac native as well, but uses Tauri. I’d love some app with the polish of Bear Notes but that just edited raw Markdown files. Ideally Obsidian with the Notebook Navigator plugin (strongly inspired by Bear Notes perhaps?) and (checks list) this very specific list of plugins that I need and should be good for everyone else thanks.

If you want proper native for macOS, check out mdnb.app

I built it with this exact ethos, a curated set of "extended" functionality instead of a plugin system.

What plugins do you rely on in Obsidian?

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