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Re: Show HN: Reor – An AI note-taking app that runs models locally

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Post by traverseda »

bemusedthrow75 wrote: post #28

I think I struggle to see any application of LLMs for my notes that wouldn't, in practice, be just as easily implemented as a search facility. My main challenge with my notes (that I've been collecting for about 15 years) is remembering to consult them before I google. I suppose a unified interface to both my notes via LLM and internet search would help, but then I get that with my Apple Notes and the Mac's systemwid…

It's not the application of LLMs for your notes, it's the application of your notes for an LLM. Like if you're running a custom code-generation LLM, it could refer back to parts of your notes using retrieval aided generation to get some more context on the work you're having it do.

But yes, a good application is probably a ways away. Still, LLM vector embedding make a good search engine pretty easy to implement, especially if you're working with small sets of well curated data where exact keyword matching might not work great.

Like if you search for "happy" you could get your happiest journal entries, even if none of them explicitly mention the word happy.

Re: Show HN: Reor – An AI note-taking app that runs models locally

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Post by samlhuillier »

CrypticShift wrote: post #18

Some suggestions : - 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 !

Thanks for your feedback!

- Multiple vaults is in fact in a PR right now: https://github.com/reorproject/reor/pull/28

- Manual linking is coming.

- Minimizing the UI to chat is interesting. Right now I guess you can drag chat to cover anything - but yes perhaps a toggle between two modes could be interesting.

- Read other formats also something in the pipeline. Just need to sort out the editor itself to support something like this. Perhaps pdfs would just be embedded into the vector db but not accessible to the editor.

- Integrating with browser history and bookmarks is a big feature. Things like web clipping and bringing in context from different places are interesting...

Re: Show HN: Reor – An AI note-taking app that runs models locally

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Post by samlhuillier »

davidy123 wrote: post #30

Super interesting project. I like its focus. Wondering if the author looked into Cozodb, or other databases that combine vector + graph/triples. Since probably neuro-symbolic is the best path. https://docs.cozodb.org/en/latest/releases/v0.6.html talks about this idea.

Interesting. Thanks for sharing will take a look!

Re: Show HN: Reor – An AI note-taking app that runs models locally

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Post by michaelmior »

kepano wrote: post #26

This is a good reminder of why storing Obsidian notes as individual Markdown files is much more useful than stuffing those notes in a database and having Markdown as an export format. The direct manipulation of files allows multiple apps to coexist and do useful things on top of the same files.

It's very possible to have multiple apps coexisting using a database. Although I'll certainly concede that it's probably a lot easier with just a bunch of Markdown files.

Re: Show HN: Reor – An AI note-taking app that runs models locally

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Post by toddmorey »

kepano wrote: post #26

This is a good reminder of why storing Obsidian notes as individual Markdown files is much more useful than stuffing those notes in a database and having Markdown as an export format. The direct manipulation of files allows multiple apps to coexist and do useful things on top of the same files.

Yes it was one of the best product decisions y'all made. Been so useful to have direct access to the files and options on how my data is processed and backed up.

Re: Show HN: Reor – An AI note-taking app that runs models locally

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Post by kepano »

michaelmior wrote: post #34
kepano wrote: post #26

This is a good reminder of why storing Obsidian notes as individual Markdown files is much more useful than stuffing those notes in a database and having Markdown as an export format. The direct manipulation of files allows multiple apps to coexist and do useful things on top of the same files.

It's very possible to have multiple apps coexisting using a database. Although I'll certainly concede that it's probably a lot easier with just a bunch of Markdown files.

Sure, it's possible, but whichever app owns the database ultimately controls the data, the schema, etc. The file system provides a neutral database that all apps can cooperate within.

Re: Show HN: Reor – An AI note-taking app that runs models locally

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Post by nerdjon »

I have been looking for a while for a better way to take notes, what I was using worked fine but it did tend to end up being a blackhole.

I just downloaded this, I realize that it is still a new tool. But I think a critical feature needs to be context. The ability to have completely separate contexts of notes, maybe even completely different databases.

That way similar sounding to an LLM but contextually different don't get brought up. I figured that is what "new directory" did but it does not appear that way.

So is there any plans to implement a switcher for database? I can't find a way to change where it is right now.

But doing some quick tests importing some notes in it does seem very promising and I really like where you are taking it. It is just confusing notes that should be in distinct contexts.

Edit: I see this is already in PR! Awesome.

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