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
Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases
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#142Re: Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases
#143A 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.)
[1]: https://fsnot.es
Re: Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases
#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
Respectfully, did you use an LLM to write this comment? You're responding to flatpandas here. Having "what flatpands is pointing at..." is similar to the output of an LLM if you were to link to that comment and get a generated summary.
I wrote it. English is my second language, so I reach for "what X is pointing at" constructions a lot — partly as a self-check that I've parsed the parent correctly. If any specific claim in there looks wrong or generated, happy to have it pointed out.
Typically we'd see the second person "you/your/you're" used and not the third person ("flatpands") here, since you (tarr1124) are directly responding to their comment, as if in conversation with them. ie: "what you're pointing at..."
Otherwise it reads like you're ignoring them and talking around them.
Re: Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases
#145Everybody is building their own llm-wiki systems these days. I have my own and compiled a big list of other agent memory systems in it: https://zby.github.io/commonplace/agent-memory-systems/ I'll add yours promptly. And just today I also vibed a wish list (based on all the material I gathered) for such systems: https://zby.github.io/commonplace/notes/designing-agent-memo... I wish we could collaborate.
Hey zby, if you're collecting these, Hjarni (hjarni.com) would fit your source-only tier alongside Fintool and Supermemory. Hosted SaaS with MCP built in, hierarchical LLM instructions (global/team/container/note), and a shared-note protocol for Claude/ChatGPT multi-agent workflows. Happy to write up a page in whatever shape you want. The wishlist doc you linked is good, would be up for collaborating on that.
Maybe you can use the instructions from my repo - which are here: https://github.com/zby/commonplace/blob/main/kb/agent-memory... and run them on your code directory? Then send me the result.
Re: Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases
#146I 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…
Re: Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases
#147I 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…
You can “sdoc file.md” to instantly open it.
It was discussed on Hacker News here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47777633
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#148This problem has risen to the top of many people’s minds at this moment (including mine!). My Show HN for a similar cli + web based solution (https://sdocs.dev) was on the /show page a few days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47777633).
SDocs is cli -> instantly rendered on web
Despite being in the browser, the content of SDocs rendered Markdown files remain local to you. SDoc urls contain your markdown document's content in compressed base64 in the url fragment (the bit after the `#`):
https://sdocs.dev/#md=GzcFAMT...(this is the contents of your document)...
The url fragment is never sent to the server (see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/URI/Reference/F...: "The fragment is not sent to the server when the URI is requested; it is processed by the client").The sdocs.dev webapp is purely a client side decoding and rendering engine for the content stored in the url fragment.
This also means you can share your .md files privately by sharing the url.