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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/
Gollum
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Can Git or any other VCS be used as a database instead of SQL/NoSQL ones? Have you ever seen such a thing?
Arguably something like ikiwiki or gollum is doing this. These are both wikis that use git as their backend 'database'. I happen to like wikis like this a lot better over wikis that store their data in mysql or some other traditional SQL backend.
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Looking for notion/jira alternatives (self-hosted) (JavaScript free)
Gollum is self-hosted and uses git for version control https://github.com/gollum/gollum
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How do you host documentation for your spouse or other users?
https://github.com/gollum/gollum ?
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Atlassian prepares to abandon on-prem server products
For something quick and easy consider https://github.com/gollum/gollum#markups which powers Github Wikis.
Note that multi-user auth is NOT supported out of the box however.
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Hermes, an Open Source Document Management System
That seems something in the ballpark of my favorite wiki software:
https://github.com/gollum/gollum
Edit and view pages as a normal markdown wiki. But the backend is just a git repository of markdown files so you can also just use your text editor and git pull/push. Usable by any novice but with the ideal power user interface.
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Simple personal knowledgebase
I'm currently using Gollum Wiki in this way. It reads from a git repository, formats the markdown files nicely, and has a limited editor that is useful in a pinch.
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What’s the prettiest yet most lightweight self-hosted wiki service out there?
I use Gollum, it's very simple but fits my needs.
- Kreiranje online wiki sto bi sacuvali
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Looking for the best self-hosted Markdown notes setup with web acces
Gollum would be an excellent solution. It's a web interface to a directory of markdown (or other formats), backed by git. Easy to sync the plain text files on your own devices (e.g. Syncthing) while still having a public web interface for school/work computers.
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Any zk like app that can run on a web server?
Gollum could meet the need. Logseq might work as well; here's a potential guide to self-hosting.
What are some alternatives?
obsidian-export - Rust library and CLI to export an Obsidian vault to regular Markdown
Wiki.js - Wiki.js | A modern and powerful wiki app built on Node.js
athens - Athens is a knowledge graph for research and notetaking. Athens is open-source, private, extensible, and community-driven.
Dokuwiki - The DokuWiki Open Source Wiki Engine
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).
Gitit - A wiki using HAppS, pandoc, and git
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.
Mediawiki - 🌻 The collaborative editing software that runs Wikipedia. Mirror from https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core. See https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_access for contributing.
juCi++
TiddlyWiki - A self-contained JavaScript wiki for the browser, Node.js, AWS Lambda etc.
Joplin - Joplin - the secure note taking and to-do app with synchronisation capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.
BookStack - A platform to create documentation/wiki content built with PHP & Laravel