Looks nice but seems overkill to me to run a Go server to sync with a telegram bot to authenticate. Maybe I don't fully understand the use case.
Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
And the developers get compensated for their work how?
Given the explosion of open source released projects I've seen over the past six months, I believe developers are getting compensated by the tool they are building for themselves creating real value for them. I have a problem, I spend a few days building a tool that solves the problem, it works pretty well for me, and I release it to let others get value from it. They make tweaks to it, perhaps improve it, and I get…
Obsidian has a number of full time employees who all want to eat and afford rent
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
That was the reason a few years ago I started this project. It seems like software in AI-era should be distributed open source. So that anyone could tweak it however he wants. Not though clunky plugins system.
> So that anyone could tweak it however he wants. That was true before the "AI era" as well.
Well, yes.
Just now, any regular user can clone the repository and ask an LLM to tune it to his needs.
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#56I wouldn't show it as an alternative to Obsidian though. It shares MD files with it and both are supposedly about note taking ("supposedly" is for Obsidian, I haven't tried Files.md yet), but Files.md seems to have its own way of making the users work with their thoughts, notes and knowledge altogether. When I read "an alternative", I assumed feature-parity and API compatibility. But what I found out was entirely dif…
> When I read "an alternative", I assumed feature-parity and API compatibility. But what I found out was entirely different and much more interesting. Thanks for a good observation! Indeed, I don't position it as Obsidian alternative. I don't know a better pitch for it just yet. For me that's something about: simplicity, lazy flow of adding things, readiness to use out of the box. To focus on what works, and not what…
I would say "open source markdown knowledge-base similar to Obsidian" but I'm not a marketing guy
Re: Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian
#57This made me realize that obsidian is *not* opensource, but in a way obsidian made me feel like it was opensource. Obviously now that I researched it, it is quite obvious that it is not, but still it 'feels' like it should be opensource.
To be fair, Obsidian is an Electron app with no obfuscation, so it's pretty easy to get its code. I think I even remember the official Obsidian team telling people to do that on their support forum if they distrusted the app.
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#58This looks awesome, and I've been waffling about moving from Notion to something local/markdown based for a while. My only issue is that I really like using "databases"/tables, specifically for moving through processes ticket-style, in Notion. Does anyone know if there's something similar elsewhere? I'm not familiar with the knowledge-base/wiki space, I just kinda fell into notion.
Re: Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian
#59I wouldn't show it as an alternative to Obsidian though. It shares MD files with it and both are supposedly about note taking ("supposedly" is for Obsidian, I haven't tried Files.md yet), but Files.md seems to have its own way of making the users work with their thoughts, notes and knowledge altogether. When I read "an alternative", I assumed feature-parity and API compatibility. But what I found out was entirely dif…
Maybe something like "self-hosted markdown notes you fully own" or "personal knowledge server"? Leans into the ownership angle instead of competing with Obsidian on features.
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#60To edit Markdown files I want a nice simple native app. We had those already more than a decade ago. Personally, I fondly remember Mou. Obsidian has heavy Electron vibes, and Files.md is several steps more into the wrong direction. The name is also bad. It feels like it was chosen because someone already had the domain.
Scope out minimal.app (or minimal.app/#beta for anyone who wants to contribute to the roadmap). Opinionated, native-only, extremely focused.