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

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Why does any app have to "own" the database? I don't see this as being a restriction any more than it is with Markdown. Arguably even less so with a database since you have access to transactions.

If you made a new app what is "the" database you would write to? There isn't an existing standard for this aside from the file system.

That's a fair point in the sense that you're always guaranteed to have some file system already :)

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

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I tried it and it doesn't really work, the models have no knowledge of my notes.

I tried llama-2-7b-chat.Q4_K_M.gguf and phi-2.Q4_K_M.gguf and neither showed any knowledge of the notes I added to the folder.

Does anyone know of a good way to test if it's working (a prompt?) and does anyone know of other projects like this?

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

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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.

That was the reason why I gave up Joplin very quickly. The last Joplin thread, here on Hacker News, has also shown once again that some still do not understand why "But Joplin can export Markdown from the database!" is not the same as simple, flat Markdown files.

Last time I used Joplin (many years ago) it stored notes as flat Markdown notes with YAML headers. I stop it using because it gave me lots of headaches and at the end of the day your favorite file browser + your favorite text editor is a far superior solution than a jack of all trades that excels at none. My notes stack is neovim + fzf + git.
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