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

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

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Post by lucaronin »

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.

the idea of being git-first it's exactly for that! so you can setup AI as a git contributor and see its changes clearly

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

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Post by lucaronin »

antonkochubey wrote: post #5

Doesn’t Obsidian already do pretty much the same?

I get the obsidian question all the time! The differences are:

- better note organization with types and relationships - different, more Notion-like UX - first class support for git as sync + version control layer - long tail of design decisions that help AI work well with vaults: types, MCP, git authorship, etc - and most of all... open source!

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

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sixhobbits wrote: post #70

I tried it and it looks really nice but like most of these it has too many small editing thorns for me to use. Two I noticed right away - ctrl-a works to go to start of line but for some reason ctrl-e doesn't work to go to end - ``` doesn't start a code block, you have to use 'insert code block' Good job on paste image from clipboard though which is another feature that I think is completely essential for something l…

``` should definitely start a code block! I do it all the time, and also just tried it now. Can you try again or tell me what you see? Simply nothing happening?
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