Just my personal pref with your roadmap, don't waste time on the electron app, I would never use it. A webapp definitely with OpenCode support big on the list as well.
Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion
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#62Just my personal pref with your roadmap, don't waste time on the electron app, I would never use it. A webapp definitely with OpenCode support big on the list as well.
Ack !
re: Web app do you mean local web UI, or web hosted?
Re: Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion
#63I'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.
Yup, we're working on it, should have integration eod or tomorrow.
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#64Congratulations on the launch. It looks neat! On a side note, I find it interesting that a few recent projects are going for the Open Knowledge name. The Open Knowledge Foundation ( https://okfn.org ) is one of the first/largest proponents of the open data movement (think of it as a Free Software Foundation but for data, not software). They started in 2004 and developed many of the open data licenses and widely used…
Biased but great name of course haha. OKF timing was coincidence, we'd started I take it around the same time they'd started internally. What's good is that everything is pretty open formats/source and complimentary.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
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-docu…
Got it, makes sense. And neat ideas for the virtualization, will take a look.
Re: Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion
#66How do you make money, and how will you pay for your salaries?
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#67How do you make money, and how will you pay for your salaries?
Don't ask our VCs. Kidding -- we're taking a look at what would make sense for a cloud solution. E.g. richer team collaboration, etc.
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#69I don't understand how Obsidian, a collection of markdown files, isn't already AI friendly. It's hard for me to imagine a more AI-friendly but still usable way to organize your notes.
This. I just open the Obsidian folder (aka "vault") in VS Code and BOOM, it is AI friendly. I just hack on the .md files like I would code with Copilot.
But there’s no good WYSIWIG markdown editor extension for VS code.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Skills / MCPs are not hard requirement, they're tailored for the desktop agents to be able to leverage built in tools we make available for e.g. agentic search over the content and manipulating the open knowledge web viewer and editor.
The skills should be pretty progressive disclosure optimized but we'll do an audit.
Nice, thanks! On my first run on Codex desktop, it said the equivalent of “skill too large, reading it in chunks”. I have the pro subscription.