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Re: Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion

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Post by engomez »

rcarmo wrote: post #53

You should just integrate with pi.dev, like I did for https://github.com/rcarmo/piclaw (which has replaced Obsidian for me). I too integrated a terminal and a WYSIWYG Markdown editor (as well as plugins for a mindmap, kanban, etc.)

Looks very relevant, will take a look. Definitely looking at built-in-chat-ui, thinking about how to integrate with the harnesses.

Re: Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion

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Post by engomez »

gman83 wrote: post #50

I've been using my opencode go subscription for Obsidian, saving my Claude sub for actual coding. Any reason why it's limited to Codex, Claude, and Cursor?

OpenCode is next on the queue. Each has it's quirks, just working through quality testing each.

Re: Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion

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Post by engomez »

jrm4 wrote: post #52

Nothing personal, but there genuinely ought to be consequences for using "open source" in the context of something like this tied to proprietary AI services. Local models should be the first choice in that framing.

Integration with local models/harnesses is top the queue. What IDE or Harness do you use?

We're looking at OpenCode/Zed next but open to input.

Re: Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion

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Post by blharr »

engomez wrote: post #39
rnxrx wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is at least one MCP server in Obsidian's community plugins, plus the REST API access capability which is already addressed in several open source MCP plugins. I use Obsidian as a persistent context store and knowledge graph (..loosely defined, i.e. link/back-link) for both Claude Code and Hermes, while also using it to generate live Wiki pages for working documentation. The native replication and the Git integr…

Right on. We did a lot of the same and then had to deal with coaching everyone on the team how to do also set it up. Large inspiration for OpenKnowledge was providing these flows out of the box. We'll prioritize Hermes/OpenClaw guides next. Feel free to drop me any feedback as you try it out - @nickgomez on X.

What was complicated about the setup? Its a plug-ins folder... add it in and boom you are ready to go

Re: Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion

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Post by mkt123 »

pcthrowaway wrote: post #42
engomez wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agree same. We'll look into explicit guides and integrations with Zed // OpenCode as a starting point, they let you choose your model.

Amazing, thanks. I've decided to try daily driving this instead of Obsidian, but I'm a bit curious how the syncing works. I copied an Obsidian vault to a new folder, and when I start the import process in OpenKnowledge it asks me if I want it "shared" or "local only". If I select "Shared", where does the git repo live that other instances of OK sync from? edit: This seems to be "team-oriented" rather than geared towa…

To clarify, OpenKnowledge will never publish your project to GitHub automatically. When you init a new project, selecting "Shared" means that OK config files will not be gitignored. Selecting "Local" will add them to your gitignore. Other open knowledge instances can only sync if you have explicitly published your project to GitHub (which you can do from the app) and enabled auto-sync in OpenKnowledge. Some docs related to this can be found here https://openknowledge.ai/docs/features/github-sync and https://openknowledge.ai/docs/features/share.

Re: Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion

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Post by smrtinsert »

gman83 wrote: post #50

I've been using my opencode go subscription for Obsidian, saving my Claude sub for actual coding. Any reason why it's limited to Codex, Claude, and Cursor?

100% second for OpenCode. for a lot of people it's becoming a very important second choice. I use it for cheaper models when my $20 claude code runs out for the day and I get a lot out of it.

Re: Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion

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Post by abdullin »

engomez wrote: post #48
abdullin wrote: post #46

Nice approach. Personally I’ve been trying very hard to migrate away from git+Obsidian project setup according to the OpenAI Harness Engineering. It works wonderfully in Codex Desktop. The only gotcha - I want to share knowledge bases with the team in a way that is: (1) versioned (a la git, not Notion) (2) usable from any chat (a la MCP) (3) basic access controls for team setup. (4) works through the interface that o…

Gotcha. We're optimizing for the same scenarios, may be worth a look at our implementation in case transferable to yours. See: #1 - the "autosync" and GitHub integrations do exactly this. #2 - The app auto-instals skills/MCP server configs for a few harnesses #4 - We embedded agentic-search capabilities via the MCP server (e.g. we virtualize 'ls' and 'cat' so we can enrich it for the agent for better hierchical navig…

#1 - the tricky part there is in scenarios from a few AI Native teams. There often are a multiple agents rolling out linked changesets to a bunch of documents on behalf of controlling humans. Eg updating compliance policy, and references and change log and current procedures at the same time.

So changesets have to be atomic across multiple documents and semantic (so that agents can resolve the changes). Weak per-document versioning isn’t enough here.

#4. Nice! Same story, but also virtualizing ripgrep, find and tree (plus MD-aware outline mode). With that setup even agents with weaker local models (eg runnable on DGX Spark) can solve complex tasks in the Agentic Commerce domain.

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