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Re: Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian

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Post by phalangion »

UnnoTed wrote: post #115

AI'm building a native version[0] of Obsidian in Qt6 (QWidgets, cpp), replicating the markdown editor takes a while, there are so many ways of corrupting the file or losing the rendered markdown style... but its getting there[1] and its lightweight, using about 15mb ram, no gpu and barely uses any cpu when the cursor or scroll moves, like a text editor should be. Still need to render widget tables, lists and syntax h…

If AI’m building isn’t a typo, I kinda like it as a way to accurately claim what I’m building with AI.

Re: Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian

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Post by NetOpWibby »

alwillis wrote: post #72
jedimastert wrote: post #58

This 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.

> waffling about moving from Notion to something local/markdown based for a while. Check out Tolaria [1]. Open source, works locally, uses markdown, no-databases. Git client built-in. Even has Notion-style input. [1]: https://tolaria.md

This looks REALLY good, thanks.

Re: Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian

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Post by mannanj »

phalangion wrote: post #121
UnnoTed wrote: post #115

AI'm building a native version[0] of Obsidian in Qt6 (QWidgets, cpp), replicating the markdown editor takes a while, there are so many ways of corrupting the file or losing the rendered markdown style... but its getting there[1] and its lightweight, using about 15mb ram, no gpu and barely uses any cpu when the cursor or scroll moves, like a text editor should be. Still need to render widget tables, lists and syntax h…

If AI’m building isn’t a typo, I kinda like it as a way to accurately claim what I’m building with AI.

Same here. I might want to use this. Would be interesting to AI build a way to see how phrases and ways of speaking like this spread, and track where the original idea could have originated and morphed and how networks spread like this.

Re: Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian

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Post by jazz9k »

embedding-shape wrote: post #98
jlos wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why should it be opensource? Obsidian gives you complete control of your data, which it stores in an open standard. Please explain to me why developers should act like monks who've taken a vow of poverty? The devs built something valuable, they should profit from it.

Wait, why are you mixing the two? You can have the software be under an open source license, yet still not be a monk that has taken a vow of poverty, it's not black and white. AFAIK (as a long-term Obsidian daily user) Obsidian makes their money on various things attached to the editor/viewer itself, but don't actually charge for the editor/viewer. Even if they did, they could still slap a FOSS license on it, and con…

"Wait, why are you mixing the two? You can have the software be under an open source license, yet still not be a monk that has taken a vow of poverty, it's not black and white."

I don't think they are mixing the two. If they open sourced it, there would be immediate competition. Anyone could fork it and circumvent/compete with any premium features they might want to add to it in the future.

It's very hard to use this model to actually build a profitable company.

The only open source projects that can actually sustain themselves financially get handouts from large corporations (or are eventually purchased by them).

Re: Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian

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Post by obsidianbases1 »

The plugin ecosystem is what really makes Obsidian different from the rest.

While OSS is nice, in theory it allows vibe-coding personalizations, without a clear plugin standard then every update would cause a merge headache.

And there is no lack of text editors.

The first real Obsidian alternative would allow use of existing Obsidian plugins. And I think this one thing could really make an alternative gain traction, with both users and those who contribute to the plugin ecosystem.

Re: Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian

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Post by Ifkaluva »

It’s interesting to me that it says that in some versions of second brain:

“Second brain grows, but first brain doesn’t get smarter.”

Something I remember Tiago Forte said, which turned me off of his partículas brand of a second brain, is that his goal is to “remember nothing”, and have the second brain surface exactly the context necessary at the moment, which he would proceed to read and ingest.

That sounds terrible to me :) it’s like “we don’t need to remember things if we can google them”.

I much prefer this author’s vision of using the second brain to strengthen the first brain.

Re: Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian

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Post by stevenhuang »

philipallstar wrote: post #19
zakirullin wrote: post #16

Earlier 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.

> It seems like software in AI-era should be distributed open source. That makes it easy for AI to be trained on it.

Good.

Re: Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian

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Post by UnnoTed »

phalangion wrote: post #121
UnnoTed wrote: post #115

AI'm building a native version[0] of Obsidian in Qt6 (QWidgets, cpp), replicating the markdown editor takes a while, there are so many ways of corrupting the file or losing the rendered markdown style... but its getting there[1] and its lightweight, using about 15mb ram, no gpu and barely uses any cpu when the cursor or scroll moves, like a text editor should be. Still need to render widget tables, lists and syntax h…

If AI’m building isn’t a typo, I kinda like it as a way to accurately claim what I’m building with AI.

You AI't wrong, just a wordplay to inform about the help of AI.

Re: Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian

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Post by sn0n »

I’ll use obsidian until I can one shot its replacement with a local llm coding agent. And if it goes away tomorrow AND a solar flare wipes my install but somehow leaves everything else, I’ll use helix and ranger until I can one shot its replacement,… with a local llm coding agent.
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