The “types as lenses, not schemas” principle and the focus on structure + relationships really stand out.
How do systems like this handle temporal stuff over time? (things that change over time, decisions that get revisited, outcomes that didn’t exist when the note was created?) Do those live as relationships between notes, or is there a different pattern for it?
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Re: Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases
#52Just another disposable piece of software maintained by a single person that does 80% of what other apps do but worse. Max lifespan 2 years
You do realize that would have once described GCC and Linux, right?
Of Linux, yes. Of GCC, no. From the very beginning there was multiple authors and the project was a mishmash of several other projects.
Re: Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases
#53not gonna lie - wow the 10k notes over 6 years thing is what got me! most knowledge base tools fall apart at that scale because the organizing system becomes the job. wondering do you ever just let something be unstructured, or does everything have to be tagged in?
I thought the thing that got you was "tolaria feels like a library"? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47884835
fair, i do sound like one sometimes. new here, still finding my voice, guess i haven't earned the benefit of the doubt yet from the og crowd like you
Re: Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases
#54I would be all over this if it was a native macOS app
Precisely. It would be awesome if it were an ACTUAL application.
I don’t care if it’s Tauri, Electron or whatever’s the new flavour of the same old lazy ass webwrapper technology.
A web app is not an actual application. Besides, I already have a browser, I don’t need another one just to open a single page so it can pretend to be an app while adhering to absolutely ZERO platform behaviour patterns.
Either go it native, or don’t even bother. If it can be run in a webwrapper, it can be run my ACTUAL a browser.
FUCK WEB APPS.
Re: Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases
#55A freaking web app? Boo. Boooooooooo. Thanks but no thanks.
At least it's Tauri!
Personally, I don’t really care which flavour of webwrapper this is. If it ain’t native, I ain’t bothering. Web pages belong in the browser, not in a browser-container pretending to be something it is not—an actual app.
Re: Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases
#56Just another disposable piece of software maintained by a single person that does 80% of what other apps do but worse. Max lifespan 2 years
Of all the things to judge this on, you chose the most ridiculous one. Why shouldn’t a project like this exist just because there are “bigger” alternatives out there?
If youre gonna shut this one down, at the very least do it for the right reasons such as the fact that this is a webwrapper—absolutely disgusting, either go native or don’t bother shoving your webpage into a browser-container and calling it what it is not (an app).
Re: Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases
#57Nice work! This looks really cool.
I downloaded and am trying it out, but I'm running into a pretty annoying sorting bug that's preventing me from using it for real. I copied over files from my Obsidian vault (preserving file times), and the first time it loaded, everything seemed to work fine. After doing the first git commit, however, Tolaria cannot seem to sort properly by last modified anymore (I'm getting notes from 2023 or 2025 up at the top). The file system tree still has the correct modified and created times.
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Re: Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases
#59Just another disposable piece of software maintained by a single person that does 80% of what other apps do but worse. Max lifespan 2 years
unacceptable comment. hacker news is misunderstood as a toxic community because of fellas like you. have some dignity.
Re: Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases
#60great job luca! looking forward to reviewing this :) i'm a heavy obsidian user but i really like your "inbox" concept.