obsidian already exists. and works on linux.
Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases
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Re: Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases
#82Why not obsidian?
Re: Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases
#83I 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
I just built a markdown-style editor for iOS that is highly performant with files of 5000 lines.
Every keystroke is restyled in under 8ms: no debouncing, no delayed rendering. 20 rapid keystrokes are processed in 150ms with full restyling after each one. Tag and boolean searches complete in under 20ms. Visible-range rendering is 25x faster than full-document styling. 120Hz screen refresh supported.
App file size is 722 KB.
If I can do it on iOS then it's must be 10x easier on macOS.
Re: Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases
#84Everybody is building their own llm-wiki systems these days. I have my own and compiled a big list of other agent memory systems in it: https://zby.github.io/commonplace/agent-memory-systems/
I'll add yours promptly.
And just today I also vibed a wish list (based on all the material I gathered) for such systems: https://zby.github.io/commonplace/notes/designing-agent-memo...
I wish we could collaborate.
Re: Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases
#85I 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.
Good tips!
>I also just keep long running notes for tracking things workouts and meals with headers for dates.
This I'd say fine on the phone but frustrating heading to the Mac and start wishing for at least a spreadsheet.
Re: Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases
#86I love this! It is like you have taken all the things I want from Obsidian (plus plug-ins) and made them into a single, well designed app. Great!
Feedback:
* This is so good you should find a way to keep it open source but also profit from it so you can develop it full-time. You could just have an official app version - I would pay for that.
* Feature creep. I am a big fan of Bear App for it's wonderful simple design, although I stopped using it because it doesn't work on markdown files directly. What I've seen is that equivalent apps/services (including Obsidian, Notion, Craft) are continuously adding new features. You've already got all the core features I think - try to avoid feature creep, and keep it focused on just doing the core things really well, like Bear App does.
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#87That’s awesome! I’m a huge fan of projects like that. I recently launched ckourse.com (open-source) to help manage downloaded courses. Combining tolaria and Ckourse will give a smooth learning experience. Thanks for the tool.
On a tangential note, do you have any recommendations for course platforms that offer paid courses with videos being 100% without DRM? I was severely disappointed late last year when I revisited one platform where I had previously dropped quite a bit of money in the past to buy access to many courses and I now wanted to finally download them for offline watching only to find that in each and every course I had bought…
Sadly, most of the big names (Udemy, Coursera, ...) are using encrypted streaming with DRM, but there are Khan Academy, Harvard, MIT,... courses that you can download and use locally. But most people are downloading the courses from torrents illegally (I don't advise doing this).
Re: Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
>open-source
And I was going to say Mac native as well, but uses Tauri. I’d love some app with the polish of Bear Notes but that just edited raw Markdown files. Ideally Obsidian with the Notebook Navigator plugin (strongly inspired by Bear Notes perhaps?) and (checks list) this very specific list of plugins that I need and should be good for everyone else thanks.
> I’d love some app with the polish of Bear Notes but that just edited raw Markdown files.
HelixNotes? ( https://codeberg.org/ArkHost/HelixNotes )
Re: Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases
#89I 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
At least for me it’s not about speed, but the npm ecosystem: I try to avoid running npm deps in my home computer (if any, I run them in VMs, but a KB should run in the host I believe)
Re: Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases
#90Why not obsidian?
One thing about obsidian is that it’s not open source. So if one day they change something and you don’t like it, you will be forced to use a different KB. That means to change your flows, the ux, etc. That’s a big downside from my pov (it’s good that obsidian allows you to take your files with you, but for me that’s not enough)