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

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Post by jwr »

lucaronin wrote: post #92
james-bcn wrote: post #86

I love this! It is like you have taken all the things I want from Obsidian (plus plug-ins) and made them into a single, well designed app. Great! Feedback: * This is so good you should find a way to keep it open source but also profit from it so you can develop it full-time. You could just have an official app version - I would pay for that. * Feature creep. I am a big fan of Bear App for it's wonderful simple design…

big fan of Bear! It was a big influence for Tolaria — that's why you like it! thank you for the great feedback mate

Why did you build something different? What was the motivation compared to Bear?

I'm a heavy Bear user, recently migrating most stuff to Drafts. My problems with Bear is that it's getting slow and I don't have easy direct access to my text data. But it does have apps for all devices and drag&drop images are really useful for lab/electronics work…

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

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Post by ianberdin »

lucaronin wrote: post #92
james-bcn wrote: post #86

I love this! It is like you have taken all the things I want from Obsidian (plus plug-ins) and made them into a single, well designed app. Great! Feedback: * This is so good you should find a way to keep it open source but also profit from it so you can develop it full-time. You could just have an official app version - I would pay for that. * Feature creep. I am a big fan of Bear App for it's wonderful simple design…

big fan of Bear! It was a big influence for Tolaria — that's why you like it! thank you for the great feedback mate

Yeah, so sad it is dead. I mean it works, but no more high progress. So it is a legacy. But it worked so fast and smooth :(

At the same time Craft is too focused to replace Google Docs with swipes. Feels weird.

So have to use Notion from phone and VSCode with Claude code on computer. I miss normal implementation of Claude code on my phone :( I really wish to have always computer and access to it maybe. Official Claude code iOS app works weird.

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

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Post by james-bcn »

jwr wrote: post #121
lucaronin wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

big fan of Bear! It was a big influence for Tolaria — that's why you like it! thank you for the great feedback mate

Why did you build something different? What was the motivation compared to Bear? I'm a heavy Bear user, recently migrating most stuff to Drafts. My problems with Bear is that it's getting slow and I don't have easy direct access to my text data. But it does have apps for all devices and drag&drop images are really useful for lab/electronics work…

For me the main issue with Bear is that it does not work with a directory of Markdown files, but locks them away in a database. If you worked directly on markdown files it would be nearly perfect. They did make a standalone markdown editor called Panda, but didn't pursue it for some reason.

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

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Post by crashabr »

fiatpandas wrote: post #47
tarr1124 wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 curates; plugins optionally enhance." The AI-first cohort (Tolaria, Sig in the sibling comment, and several others) assumes the AI reads and writes as a first-class agent, which makes design choices like how the app reacts to files changing…

It would be nice if you could “see” the AI in your vault making changes. Almost like a Google doc collab session. Even if you weren’t directly interacting with the agent, and it was making change thru a CLI/MCP, its presence would be highlighted in the frontend. And then it appears as its own contributor in the git history.

I'm following a startup who does just that: https://www.moment.dev/docs

It's still early stage, but I love their pitch so I'm following them with fingers crossed.

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

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Post by duncangh »

I have a question about markdown on MacBook Pro. You know the preview feature - I think it’s called quick quicklook - how can I get that to work for markdown? I’ve associated .md files to always open with my IDE, but they still don’t render with the preview which is a mild annoyance. In my IDE i do use an extension to render the Md so that could be why and I could understand why recursive invocation may not be exposed at or available to the preview extension level. But any suggestions?

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

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Post by pegasus »

duncangh wrote: post #125

I have a question about markdown on MacBook Pro. You know the preview feature - I think it’s called quick quicklook - how can I get that to work for markdown? I’ve associated .md files to always open with my IDE, but they still don’t render with the preview which is a mild annoyance. In my IDE i do use an extension to render the Md so that could be why and I could understand why recursive invocation may not be expose…

Look for a quicklook markdown plugin. Google found this: https://github.com/sbarex/QLMarkdown

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

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Post by aagd »

duncangh wrote: post #125

I have a question about markdown on MacBook Pro. You know the preview feature - I think it’s called quick quicklook - how can I get that to work for markdown? I’ve associated .md files to always open with my IDE, but they still don’t render with the preview which is a mild annoyance. In my IDE i do use an extension to render the Md so that could be why and I could understand why recursive invocation may not be expose…

I use https://github.com/sbarex/QLMarkdown and find it useful.

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

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Post by redaantar »

ikdiendoehdj wrote: post #55
droidjj wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At least it's Tauri!

Personally, I don’t really care which flavour of webwrapper this is. If it ain’t native, I ain’t bothering. Web pages belong in the browser, not in a browser-container pretending to be something it is not—an actual app.

Why it matters since it does the job !
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