Good point. But doesn’t Obsidian also support a CLI? In theory, wouldn’t that also work well with agents? I’m still curious what pain points this project solves compared with Obsidian or Notion.
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#112So it's just a Electron editor + "open in %agent" button... I don't see any reasons to use it instead of. obsidian + my agents.
More 1. Webpage is lying and showing stuff what you don't have in the app 2. You made changes to my .zshrc without asking me. 3. Slow. Open and render tiny md file with 10 lines - 1s Removed, will never install again
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#113I really wanted to like this, but unfortunately couldn't see how it improves my experience over Obsidian or VS Code. The fact that I have to juggle between OpenKnowledge and Codex to engage the AI, while also accepting a barebones Obsidian, is a real bummer. From what I can tell, you are saving me a few key strokes with moving prompts around. What I really want is the AI to live IN the app, like VS Code, and then mov…
Ack, thanks for feedback ! We're definitely looking at a more integrated experience.
My current agentic workflow is having a github repo that is a workspace and essentially a single obsidian vault over it called agents. I modify with Claude code (or other harness), check diffs in...VSCode and read it in...Obsidian.
It's separate from my actual personal Obsidian vault (that I don't send to any AI providers), and is only for agents. It's been really nice on all sorts of varied projects and for performing web research. I also have a bun monorepo setup in the root with varied tools for search, fetching individual websites, setting up folder structures - etc.
But essentially, in my experience, the moment you tell the model that it's in an Obsidian Vault - magic happens.
I am so curious how this will play in with it all and am hoping this will improve my workflow!
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
Personally I just want to see more support for local LLMs. I haven't been doing much coding lately but am interested in setting up Qwen 3.6 if I can obtain the hardware
Agree same. We'll look into explicit guides and integrations with Zed // OpenCode as a starting point, they let you choose your model.
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#115Re: Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion
#116I really wanted to like this, but unfortunately couldn't see how it improves my experience over Obsidian or VS Code. The fact that I have to juggle between OpenKnowledge and Codex to engage the AI, while also accepting a barebones Obsidian, is a real bummer. From what I can tell, you are saving me a few key strokes with moving prompts around. What I really want is the AI to live IN the app, like VS Code, and then mov…
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#117Re: Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion
#118obsidian: great for LLMs (local markdown files), bad for collaboration (no multiplayer features like multi editor, comments)
notion: not great for LLMs (network round trips, block-based editing), great for collaboration
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#119i think the gap that needs to be bridged between obsidian and notion is: obsidian: great for LLMs (local markdown files), bad for collaboration (no multiplayer features like multi editor, comments) notion: not great for LLMs (network round trips, block-based editing), great for collaboration