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mindforger
- Show HN: MindForger – Attention, LLM is all your note-taking app needs
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Show HN: Reor – An AI note-taking app that runs models locally
Rear is a really interesting project with admirable goals. I believe this is just the beginning, but you have already done a great job!
I have been working on my note-taking application (https://github.com/dvorka/mindforger) for some time and wanted to go in the same direction. However, I gave up (for now). I used ggerganov/llama.cpp to host LLM models locally on a CPU-only machine with 32GB RAM, and used them for both RAG and note-taking use cases (like https://www.mindforger.com/index-200.html#llm). However, it did not work well for me - the performance was poor (high hardware utilization, long response times, failures, and crashes) and the actual responses were rarely useful (off-topic and impractical responses, hallucinations). I tried llama-2 7B with 4b quantization and a couple of similar models. Although I'm not happy about it, I switched to an online commercial LLM because it performs really well in terms of response quality, speed, and affordability. I frequently use the integrated LLM in my note-taking app as it can be used for many things.
Anyway, Reor "only" uses the locally hosted LLM in the generation phase of the RAG, which is a nicely constraint use case. I believe that a really lightweight LLM - I'm thinking about a tiny base model fine-tuned for summarization - could be the way to go (fast, non-hallucinating). I'm really curious to know if you have any suggestions or if you will have any in the future!
As for the vector DB, considering the resource-related problems I mentioned earlier, I was thinking about something similar to facebookresearch/faiss, which, unlike LanceDB, is not a fully-fledged vector DB. Have you made any experiments with similarity search projects or vector DBs? I would be interested in the trade-offs similar to small/large/hosted LLMs.
Overall, I think that both RAG with my personal notes as a corpus and a locally hosted generic purpose LLM for the use cases I mentioned above can take personal note-taking apps to a new level. This is the way! ;)
Good luck with your project!
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MindForger 1.53.0: Kanban and Eisenhower Matrix on tags, spell check, CSV with OHE tags export and µ terminal
Please share your suggestions, ideas or constructive criticism! You may install or update from GitHubreleases or PPA.
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MindForger 1.53.0 brings Kanban and Eisenhower Matrix on tags, spell check, CSV with OHE tags export and µ terminal
I finally managed to complete new MindForger release:
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Forgotten program: Note taking or writing app where you can deep dive into words like a wiki, each one opening further and further to the right...
https://www.mindforger.com/NimbusnoteWikidpadBecause you mentioned writing:
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Our new plugin Graph Analysis lets you discover hidden links in your vault with a '2nd-order backlinks pane'!
Neat, the Similarity type reminds me of MindForger's Associations feature that also displays similarity scores between your current note and other existing notes
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But really, come on now
[Mindfrogger](https://github.com/dvorka/mindforger)
- Is there a tool to compare Github forks?
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Personal knowledge base
Mindforger: https://github.com/dvorka/mindforger/
foam
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Vscode setup with Foam and Logseq for Digital Note Taking
Source: (1) A personal knowledge management and sharing system for VSCode - Foam. https://foambubble.github.io/foam/. (2) A personal knowledge management and sharing system for VSCode. https://github.com/foambubble/foam. (3) Loam - Visual Studio Marketplace. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ciceroisback.loam.
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A structured note-taking app for personal use
You should have a look at Foam: https://github.com/foambubble/foam
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Ask HN: How Do You Utilize Your Personal Knowledge Base?
I started using Foam[0] a few years ago, but the more I used it, the more I dropped all the tedious bits, and it became nothing more than a big, evolving markdown repo.
When I switched from vscode (back) to vim, it has worked as well or better than it did before. I follow my own rules. I like the Zettelkasten idea of one idea per card, but if I put more related things in the same .md file, that's OK. I didn't like the flat directory structure, and so I have dirs organized by category. My /bar directory is inside my /cooking directory, and for whatever reason, that makes sense to me. Ripgrep doesn't care, and I always find what I'm looking for.
This markdown hierarchy, that still lives in a repo called "foam", has become indispensable to me.
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How would you read your files if Obsidian disappeared?
Probably use foam https://github.com/foambubble/foam
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How do you guys document all the technical stuff of your selfhosted servers?
So I switched to FOAM and it's just clean & organized markdown files in a git repo. Self host a code server instance and I can reference it without installing something to the work machine.
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The 1st APP that you open each day?
Recently I started to configure my digital garden. Foam is a good option, Hugo Doks, No Style Please, Git-Wiki, Researcher, Thinkspace, and other themes are good for zetteltasken pages.
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Free note taking apps with support of Wikilinks
I use foam and VSCode and regularly am wow'd with what I am having it do next. I feel I am still just getting started too.
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Web Version of Obsidian
I've wondered about using obsidian with foam as a web editing fallback.
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Silver Bullet: Markdown-based extensible open source personal knowledge platform
Since the data store is markdown and can be synced with Git, you can already work with an Obsidian vault using Foam in VSCode. I do.
You do need to align some options in each, such as file naming, a header, a particular style of links, and ensure frontmatter behavior. All necessary settings exist.
https://foambubble.github.io/foam/
https://github.com/foambubble/foam/issues/46
This supports basic static file and links functionality, not extended data tools etc., of course.
- Foam, A personal knowledge management and sharing system in VSCode and GitHub
What are some alternatives?
obsidian-export - Rust library and CLI to export an Obsidian vault to regular Markdown
dendron - The personal knowledge management (PKM) tool that grows as you do!
athens - Athens is a knowledge graph for research and notetaking. Athens is open-source, private, extensible, and community-driven.
logseq - A local-first, non-linear, outliner notebook for organizing and sharing your personal knowledge base. Use it to organize your todo list, to write your journals, or to record your unique life.
ultimatepp - U++ is a C++ cross-platform rapid application development framework focused on programmer's productivity. It includes a set of libraries (GUI, SQL, Network etc.), and integrated development environment (TheIDE).
vscode-memo - Markdown knowledge base with bidirectional [[link]]s built on top of VSCode [Moved to: https://github.com/svsool/memo]
Trilium Notes - Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes
juCi++
org-roam - Rudimentary Roam replica with Org-mode
Joplin - Joplin - the secure note taking and to-do app with synchronisation capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.
vscode-markdown-editor - A vscode extension to make your vscode become a full-featured WYSIWYG markdown editor