I wonder how it compares to https://github.com/refactoringhq/tolaria They look similarly scoped. I haven't used it yet and it's great that there is more choice now
Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion
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#152how does the collab work locally. do you add provision for connecting to a yjs sync server? or do you have plan to add this option as premium only in future?
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#153how does the collab work locally. do you add provision for connecting to a yjs sync server? or do you have plan to add this option as premium only in future?
collab between agent human happens locally via yjs
collab between human human happens using git/GitHub. so collab right now is auto-sync (~few min latency) + sharing functionality. Richer realtime collab is indeed something we're looking at.
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#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
Looks very relevant, will take a look. Definitely looking at built-in-chat-ui, thinking about how to integrate with the harnesses.
Ye built in AI is the only way this makes sense to me. Or otherwise could just add a terminal where you can run any TUI mapped to that notes/vaults dir or something.
Great thought - we indeed added Claude/Codex terminal in there already. Was our quick win as we investigated this deeply.
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#155Congratulations 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.
The Open Knowledge Foundation is an organisation that has been going since 2004. https://okfn.org/en/>
This is different to the Open Knowledge Format announced by Google in June 2026.
Re: Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion
#156I see no knowledge graph kinda of things which any replacement of obsidian needs.
Currently its probably just a less good obsidian copilot (but at least its open source)
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#157I see no knowledge graph kinda of things which any replacement of obsidian needs. Currently its probably just a less good obsidian copilot (but at least its open source)
There is a knowledge graph -- we'll update the readme to make clearer. We support wikilinks and forward/backward links are presented to the agent through the MCP server for "agentic search". There's semantic search support as well, etc.
Re: Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion
#158Congratulations 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.
You had started your AI project before 2004?
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#159Good to see CodeMirror and yjs in there. Rant warning (sorry OP but I have to vent somehow) : AI-first is the proof that things didn't change that much. It's a bit like "Roomba-compatible" flat. If somehow you have to changes your ways for a tool to work then clearly that tool isn't that flexible. It's perfectly fine but to me it's quite tiring when it's about the most hyped industry ever funded.
As a founder of a company that revolves around AI, I get you. It can feel frothy // intangible // overwhelming.
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#160Consider making the first image in the readme either static, or move slowly enough that there's reasonable dwell time to understand the UI when it's done with rendering. Right now there's nowhere on the gif that you can focus on to understand that part of the app in any detail, so it's basically a flashy box of randomness.
Fixed!