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

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The feature I am waiting for in all of these editors is integrating 'red lining' as a channel for LLM input. This is the best interface for working on a text. https://www.roughdraft.md/ does the core idea pretty well - but is not well integrated with the rest (browsing, etc).

Curious: do you mean being able to select text and "add it" to clipboard/attachment for the LLM, or something else?

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

What we did to go "beyond" is build in skills and an MCP server into the app, and auto-install those into e.g. Claude, Codex, and Cursor formats. Also added a web viewer so that e.g. Claude Desktop can open up the editor directly within it's embedded web viewer.

Don't take this the wrong way, but couldn't this have been a plugin?

they can't make money out of that. don't be silly lmao.

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

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I recently moved from Obsidian to a self-hosted Outline. Primarily because I needed an easy to use solution for sharing a knowledgebase with the team. Obsidian doesn't do team. Notion appears to, but Outline fit the bill so well, and was free. It has an MCP server, just like Notion.

I do wish that there was a way to provide filesystem level access to the markdown files to an AI agent. I think that might be faster.

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

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Congratulations 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…

https://pi.dev/

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

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Warning for those who use Codex: when I started this, it trashed my Codex config.toml file. I'm sure that it'll be fixed upstream soon, not a deal breaker, just a warning for anyone installing it right this second. Thankfully I had backups.

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

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post #127

Warning for those who use Codex: when I started this, it trashed my Codex config.toml file. I'm sure that it'll be fixed upstream soon, not a deal breaker, just a warning for anyone installing it right this second. Thankfully I had backups.

Checking this asap, apologies for any inconvenience.

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

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I recently moved from Obsidian to a self-hosted Outline. Primarily because I needed an easy to use solution for sharing a knowledgebase with the team. Obsidian doesn't do team. Notion appears to, but Outline fit the bill so well, and was free. It has an MCP server, just like Notion. I do wish that there was a way to provide filesystem level access to the markdown files to an AI agent. I think that might be faster.

Let me know if you see any gap with OpenKnowledge an this scenario. It's exactly what we aimed to solve (files are markdown and local, sync and team sharing happens via git/GitHub but is abstracted away from user).
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