Show HN: Deta Surf – An open source and local-first AI notebook • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Deta Surf – An open source and local-first AI notebook

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Post by chrisweekly » Thu, Oct 23, 2025, 11:48 PM UTC

pietz wrote: post #40

chrisweekly wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

hey Pietz, have you written up your obsidian + codex setup? I'm a die-hard obsidian user, didn't like codex 6mo ago but heard it's gotten much better, so I'm very interested if you're willing to share TIA!

Oh, it's nothing fancy I'm afraid. I have an AGENTS.md file in my vault that provides a bit of context that this is not about coding, but about serving as my Obsidian helper. I ask it to check the .obsidian folder to check my plugins, Tell it how I like to build my presentations and the workflow I follow when writing articles. Then I just launch codex in the terminal inside the vault, have it do stuff, while I watch…

Cool, thanks!

Re: Show HN: Deta Surf – An open source and local-first AI notebook

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Post by rubenvanwyk » Fri, Oct 24, 2025, 5:05 AM UTC

Isn’t Marimo becoming the new standard for notebooks?

Re: Show HN: Deta Surf – An open source and local-first AI notebook

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Post by LegatoDi777 » Thu, Oct 30, 2025, 10:02 AM UTC

Hey, yeah, it looks cool. Could you share? What’s your plan? Financial model?

Re: Show HN: Deta Surf – An open source and local-first AI notebook

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Post by blooalien » Sun, Nov 02, 2025, 4:11 PM UTC

rubenvanwyk wrote: post #42

Isn’t Marimo becoming the new standard for notebooks?

> Isn’t Marimo becoming the new standard for notebooks?

In my experience, sorta kinda for certain uses but not entirely replacing other options. Marimo is great for when you want to build a more "app-like" notebook that does a task repeatably (it really beats Jupyter at this, even given JupyerWidgets), but for pure experimentation and playing with code, Jupyter Labs still rules the roost for me. I keep both installed for the different purposes that each excels at. This one may fill yet another need. Dunno yet until I give it some play-time.