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Re: Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian

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Post by theultdev »

philipallstar wrote: post #19
zakirullin wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That was the reason a few years ago I started this project. It seems like software in AI-era should be distributed open source. So that anyone could tweak it however he wants. Not though clunky plugins system.

> It seems like software in AI-era should be distributed open source. That makes it easy for AI to be trained on it.

Yeah, also makes it easy for humans to train on it.

That's the point of open source, sharing the knowledge.

We'll all make the same shit over and over if noone shares.

But if we all share, then the only thing left to make is the unknown.

Re: Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian

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Post by solarkraft »

ocimbote wrote: post #17

I wouldn't show it as an alternative to Obsidian though. It shares MD files with it and both are supposedly about note taking ("supposedly" is for Obsidian, I haven't tried Files.md yet), but Files.md seems to have its own way of making the users work with their thoughts, notes and knowledge altogether. When I read "an alternative", I assumed feature-parity and API compatibility. But what I found out was entirely dif…

> When I read "an alternative", I assumed feature-parity and API compatibility

When I read “alternative” I immediately had a rant in my head about people calling things alternatives that are not.

Re: Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian

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Post by trvz »

To edit Markdown files I want a nice simple native app.

We had those already more than a decade ago. Personally, I fondly remember Mou.

Obsidian has heavy Electron vibes, and Files.md is several steps more into the wrong direction.

The name is also bad. It feels like it was chosen because someone already had the domain.

Re: Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian

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Post by pests »

trvz wrote: post #18
zakirullin wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That was the reason a few years ago I started this project. It seems like software in AI-era should be distributed open source. So that anyone could tweak it however he wants. Not though clunky plugins system.

And the developers get compensated for their work how?

The same way they do now?

Re: Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian

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Post by pspeter3 »

zakirullin wrote: post #11

I believe that not only you should own your data in plain files, but also you should own the software that opens those files. So that your files and tools can grow together, fully under your ownership, through the ages. The app can be easily tweaked for your own needs via an LLM - code is optimized for that. P.S. And Golang seems to be great fit for this kind of software.

What makes Golang a great fit in your opinion?

Re: Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian

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Post by helloplanets »

trvz wrote: post #18
zakirullin wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That was the reason a few years ago I started this project. It seems like software in AI-era should be distributed open source. So that anyone could tweak it however he wants. Not though clunky plugins system.

And the developers get compensated for their work how?

Feels like a lot of apps that launch these days have an open source core app and a subscription based platform.

The subscription based platform with automatic cloud hosting and other quality of life features, whatever those are depending on the app.

Although there's a bunch of 100% open source projects and developers that get enough donations to make it their full time job just off of that. Not that it's the way to go if you want to get rich, but it's still very much a real thing.

Re: Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian

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Post by gonzalohm »

amai wrote: post #23

I'm missing export in https://textbundle.org/ format. "TextBundle brings convenience back - by bundling the Markdown text and all referenced images into a single file."

If you want to bundle your images in markdown why don't you just use an HTML section with the image encoded as base64 data?

Re: Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian

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Post by snjnlsn »

zakirullin wrote: post #10
dewey wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's the comment that made me check it out in more detail, as that sticks out from all the other projects that were built in a weekend in the past months.

Thanks! There's a lot to it, and for years me and my friends were using the project. A lot of us built knowledge bases, and we enjoyed it all quite a bit.

are you still using the project?
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