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

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Looks really neat. Though, it does feel like "yet another KM app" without significant innovations.

I don't believe I've seen a KM app with true WYSWIG that's markdown underneath. Rest is indeed mainly packaging up all the second-brain, MCP, skills, and AI integrations to be out-of-the-box. More to come.

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

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post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Biased but great name of course haha. OKF timing was coincidence, we'd started I take it around the same time they'd started internally. What's good is that everything is pretty open formats/source and complimentary.

You had started your AI project before 2004?

Talking about a few different things, OKFN and OKF.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You had started your AI project before 2004?

Talking about a few different things, OKFN and OKF.

OKFN and OKF are the same thing: "Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) is a global, non-profit network that promotes and shares information at no charge, including both content and data [--] founded by Rufus Pollock on 20 May 2004 [--] Between May 2016 and May 2019 the organisation was named Open Knowledge International"

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

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https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/how-th...

Did you look at the OKF repo from Google? Open Knowledge seems to be a common term these days for similar solutions. I think OKF is more of the protocol for wiki-for-llm while you have more of the bells and whistles

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https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/how-th... Did you look at the OKF repo from Google? Open Knowledge seems to be a common term these days for similar solutions. I think OKF is more of the protocol for wiki-for-llm while you have more of the bells and whistles

It looks like a revision to OKF format could include: support for RDF URIs as labels, schema.org RDFS alignment (:name @en, :about, :description,)

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

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post #89

Electron apps tend to fall down in the minutiae of the little things that native apps get right (around things like selection, scrolling, various small affordances across various levels). Would love to see something like this be more native app upfront, than starting out with something that will always leave that top 10% of what makes a nice feeling app unobtainable. You win hard on this if you have the best possible…

This is a very mac-centric view. It makes business sense to plan for multiplatform.

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

#170
It's rather easy to ask claude code to make you plugins, although you need to instruct it to break the sandbox in which Obsidian run and I think I'm currently hardcoding some paths.

e.g. I have a plugin that when triggered reads a text and asks the LLM whether there are unclear points and unwarranted leaps of reasoning.

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