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).
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#122Earlier 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?
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#123I 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.
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#124steam machine means everyone is moving to linux.
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#125Congratulations 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…
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#128Warning 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.
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#130I 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.