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Hubble: Open-source notetaking app for you and your agents

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Re: Hubble: Open-source notetaking app for you and your agents

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post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also why is it a nodejs app? With the explosion of LLM and the insane increase in productivity shouldn't it be a Rust app?

Between being criticised for too much LLLM and not enough, the developers can't win can they?

Well they can win! Since everyone is so pro LLM don't write apps in Nodejs LOL

Pre LLM nodejs was convenient option to deploy to all platforms at once.

Post LLM that's no longer a limitation! Just prompt more to create apps in native language! Anyways RAM is getting costlier by the day due to LLMs themselves

That is unless devs don't use LLMs at all. Then they should simply state in the GitHub repo that we don't use AI!

I wouldn't use AI for hobby projects tbh. It's my personal preference

Re: Hubble: Open-source notetaking app for you and your agents

#24

I’ve been waiting for an app like this to be developed! .md files can be opened from Finder! The tree file view is just like I’m used to with Obsidian! Frontmatter support! There’s even an editor toolbar. Almost everything on my wishlist for a Markdown editor, except for Mermaid rendering. Since this project uses such good agentic engineering practices, I was able to use Claude Code to add support for Mermaid diagram…

You seems pretty enthusiastic about this very new and not very well known software...

Re: Hubble: Open-source notetaking app for you and your agents

#25

I’ve been waiting for an app like this to be developed! .md files can be opened from Finder! The tree file view is just like I’m used to with Obsidian! Frontmatter support! There’s even an editor toolbar. Almost everything on my wishlist for a Markdown editor, except for Mermaid rendering. Since this project uses such good agentic engineering practices, I was able to use Claude Code to add support for Mermaid diagram…

You seems pretty enthusiastic about this very new and not very well known software...

It's 680 commits old.

Re: Hubble: Open-source notetaking app for you and your agents

#26

I’ve been waiting for an app like this to be developed! .md files can be opened from Finder! The tree file view is just like I’m used to with Obsidian! Frontmatter support! There’s even an editor toolbar. Almost everything on my wishlist for a Markdown editor, except for Mermaid rendering. Since this project uses such good agentic engineering practices, I was able to use Claude Code to add support for Mermaid diagram…

Seems odd that you wouldn't comment on the existing issue, or open a PR?

https://github.com/bholmesdev/hubble.md/issues/176

Re: Hubble: Open-source notetaking app for you and your agents

#27

I’ve been waiting for an app like this to be developed! .md files can be opened from Finder! The tree file view is just like I’m used to with Obsidian! Frontmatter support! There’s even an editor toolbar. Almost everything on my wishlist for a Markdown editor, except for Mermaid rendering. Since this project uses such good agentic engineering practices, I was able to use Claude Code to add support for Mermaid diagram…

You seems pretty enthusiastic about this very new and not very well known software...

Ben Holmes is active at X, you can check him out @BHolmesDev, he works for Warp.dev, they do multi-harness IDE named Oz.

Re: Hubble: Open-source notetaking app for you and your agents

#28
I think that is a really nice implementation. A few questions:

Can you easily share lists or pages or is it all local? (Is there a cloud element to it)

What are the most useful examples you’ve personally found when it comes to using the HYML component?

I built https://smalldocs.org for my agent’s Markdown needs. I extended it so it can render complex formats: Mermaid diagrams, charts, in-document slides and even in-document spreadsheets. It gives your agent a good selection of formats to express itself as it helps you understand whatever topic you’re looking into.

Here is a sample document: https://smalldocs.org/blogs/what-is-a-smalldoc

I publish anonymous analytics here: https://smalldocs.org/analytics

Re: Hubble: Open-source notetaking app for you and your agents

#29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You seems pretty enthusiastic about this very new and not very well known software...

It's 680 commits old.

Which in this brave new agentic world could be what, 2 days? :)

Re: Hubble: Open-source notetaking app for you and your agents

#30
Genuinely curious, maybe I'm missing something. What makes this more "agent-ready" than Obsidian .md files on disk or even something like .org files?

I can let my agent edit those files all the same + there's better integrations and knowledge readily available on these.

I can tell my agent to edit the Obsidian Markdown just like that, but I can also tell it to create a full-on notebook with backlinks and DataView queries. I can tell my agent to create logically complex .org notes with code blocks and references.

To me, Hubble just seems like a Markdown editor, based on the premise that agents are able to edit local files.

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