Just wondering what the interaction might be for someone who uses Obsidian but might turn to this occasionally.
Show HN: Reor – An AI note-taking app that runs models locally
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Re: Show HN: Reor – An AI note-taking app that runs models locally
#12Does the future of knowledge management involve using lots of AI to organize pieces of knowledge? I think "here be dragons", and that over-relying on AI to do all your organization for you will very possibly (probably?) cause you to become worse at thinking. No data to back this up because it is still early days in the proliferation of such tools, but historically making learning and thinking and "knowledge managemen…
In some cases, hard thinking and searching for things manually can really enhance understanding and build your knowledge.
In other cases, particularly when ideating for example, you want to be given "inspiration" from other related ideas to build upon other ideas you've had previously.
I think it's a mix of both - reaching for AI as and when when you need it - but avoiding it intentionally at times as well.
Re: Show HN: Reor – An AI note-taking app that runs models locally
#13This is really cool! Something i've actually been thinking about for a while. Would you mind a pull request that spruces up the design a bit?
Absolutely! Would love your help.
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#14So if I point this at my existing Obsidian library, what happens? Does this add to existing files, or add new files, to store the output of things generated by the AI? Doe the chunking of the files only happen within the vector database? What if I later edit my files in Obsidian and only open up Reor after -- does the full chucking happen every time, or can it notice that only a few new files exist? Just wondering wh…
In short, yes it'd work seamlessly if you wanted to use it occasionally.
Re: Show HN: Reor – An AI note-taking app that runs models locally
#15I had been researching stuff related to this for some time. Interesting project! Why not an obsidian plugin to tap into the ecosystem?
1. The libraries I used to run models locally didn't work inside a plugin.
2. I believe AI is a fairly big paradigm shift that requires new software.
Re: Show HN: Reor – An AI note-taking app that runs models locally
#16Does the future of knowledge management involve using lots of AI to organize pieces of knowledge? I think "here be dragons", and that over-relying on AI to do all your organization for you will very possibly (probably?) cause you to become worse at thinking. No data to back this up because it is still early days in the proliferation of such tools, but historically making learning and thinking and "knowledge managemen…
Socrates said exactly this.
But when they came to writing, Theuth said: “O King, here is something that, once learned, will make the Egyptians wiser and will improve their memory; I have discovered a potion for memory and for wisdom.” Thamus, however, replied: “O most expert Theuth, one man can give birth to the elements of an art, but only another can judge how they can benefit or harm those who will use them. And now, since you are the father of writing, your affection for it has made you describe its effects as the opposite of what they really are. In fact, it will introduce forgetfulness into the soul of those who learn it: they will not practice using their memory because they will put their trust in writing, which is external and depends on signs that belong to others, instead of trying to remember from the inside, completely on their own. You have not discovered a potion for remembering, but for reminding; you provide your students with the appearance of wisdom, not with its reality. Your invention will enable them to hear many things without being properly taught, and they will imagine that they have come to know much while for the most part they will know nothing. And they will be difficult to get along with, since they will merely appear to be wise instead of really being so.”
Re: Show HN: Reor – An AI note-taking app that runs models locally
#17I played around with this on a couple of small knowledge bases using an open Hermes model I had downloaded. The “related notes” feature didn't provide much value in my experience, often the link was so weak it was nonsensical. The Q&A mode was surprisingly helpful for querying notes and providing overviews, but asking anything specific typically just resulted in less than helpful or false answers. I'm sure this could be improved with a better model etc.
As a concept, I strongly support the development of private, locally-run knowledge management tools. Ideally, these solutions should prioritise user data privacy and interoperability, allowing users to easily export and migrate their notes if a new service better fits their needs. Or better yet, be completely local, but have functionality for 'plugins' so a user can import their own models or combine plugins. A bit like how Obsidian[1] allows for user created plugins to enable similar functionality to Reor, such as the Obsidan-LLM[2] plugin.
[1] https://obsidian.md/ [2] https://github.com/zatevakhin/obsidian-local-llm
Re: Show HN: Reor – An AI note-taking app that runs models locally
#18- Create multiple independent "vaults" (like obsidian).
- Append links to related notes, so you can use (Obsidian's) graph view to map the AI connections.
- "Minimize" the UI to just the chat window.
- Read other formats (mainly pdfs).
- Integrate with browser history/bookmarks (maybe just a script to manually import them as markdown ?)
Thanks for Reor !
Re: Show HN: Reor – An AI note-taking app that runs models locally
#19Wow cool, can I import my One Note notebooks?!!??
Re: Show HN: Reor – An AI note-taking app that runs models locally
#20If you are using Obsidian, Smart Connections in v2 (1) does also support local embeddings and shows related notes based on semantic similarity.
It's not super great on bi/multi-lingual vaults (DE + EN in my case), but it's improving rapidly and might soon support embedding models that cater for these cases as well.
(1) https://github.com/brianpetro/obsidian-smart-connections