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Re: Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases

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post #49

I often fall back to Apple Notes (I know not really a knowledge base, or markdown) because it syncs between my devices and it's usable on the phone. Is this something you have a need for yourself, or how are you looking at your notes on mobile?

I solve it by using Apple Notes for quick capture and then copy pasting from my mac to obsidian daily/specific notes, that I want to keep.

I also just keep long running notes for tracking things workouts and meals with headers for dates.

Works better than things like obsidian mobile and copy pasting is a natural filter.

Re: Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases

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post #57

Nice 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…

that's weird will look into it! thanks for reporting

Re: Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases

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I would be all over this if it was a native macOS app

I started Tolaria in Swift but met very real limitations especially in the Markdown editor part. It's very hard to build something that is Notion like in that department with Swift.

But give it a try because Tauri is very fast

Re: Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases

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I tried it and it looks really nice but like most of these it has too many small editing thorns for me to use. Two I noticed right away

- ctrl-a works to go to start of line but for some reason ctrl-e doesn't work to go to end

- ``` doesn't start a code block, you have to use 'insert code block'

Good job on paste image from clipboard though which is another feature that I think is completely essential for something like this and weirdly missing in many of them.

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