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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/
Joplin
- Ask HN: What is your approach for managing personal digital assets?
- Joplin is an open source note-taking app
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My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file
I've had great success with using Joplin for this, with Syncthing as a sync backend. Works well across OSes; I use it on Linux, macOS, Windows and Android.
https://joplinapp.org/
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Why I Like Obsidian
The tools to manipulate SQL aren't that bad, no.
But rather than having a self explanatory markdown & flat file, now I have to start learning about the schema & making specific tools (in my preferred language) for manipulating Joplin's schema.
Suddenly I'm digging through 20 different technic specs to decode what data is where, how it works, and what I can do to it. Want to edit history? This is the best help you'll get, pray it's adequately technical to expedite you to your purpose: https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/blob/dev/readme/dev/spec...
As I began with, I struggle to imagine anything that generates anywhere near as much user agency as flat files and markdown. Having boring common data & systems lets me apply portable skills I already have, rather than having to skill up in some particular product's own ecosystem.
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IAC sold 17 apps to Bending Spoons. $100M deal, all 330 employees fired
Joplin is a good open source option too, feels more like the original Evernote in terms of UI/UX https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/
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Ask HN: What do you use for note-taking or as knowledge base?
Joplin, an open source, extendable, Markdown-based hierarchical note-taking app: https://joplinapp.org/
It lets you choose a synchronization backend, offers applications for every major desktop and mobile OS (also has a terminal version). You can create notebooks and subnotebooks to organize your notes. You can also add tags for better search experience. I created notebooks for specific domains (work-related, home improvement, etc.) and also keep a "temp" for quick notes and W.I.P. snippets.
Its only con that it uses Electron on desktop which causes relatively slow start of the application.
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Joplin VS Einwurf - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 20 Dec 2023
- PSA to Evernote Free users: 2 similar FREE apps to migrate to (I hope this post can end these questions so we can leave this sub's users in peace!)
- Evernote alternatives?
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Evernote Pre Mortem
done
What are some alternatives?
obsidian-export - Rust library and CLI to export an Obsidian vault to regular Markdown
Trilium Notes - Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes
athens - Athens is a knowledge graph for research and notetaking. Athens is open-source, private, extensible, and community-driven.
obsidian - GraphQL, built for Deno - a native GraphQL caching client and server module
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).
notesnook - A fully open source & end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote.
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.
Boostnote - This repository is outdated and new Boost Note app is available! We've launched a new Boost Note app which supports real-time collaborative writing. https://github.com/BoostIO/BoostNote-App
juCi++
obsidian - Comfy, playful but productive theme for Obsidian. "Primary instantly puts you in a relaxed state that opens the door to creativity and exploration. Wonderfully executed down to the smallest details,"
QOwnNotes - QOwnNotes is a plain-text file notepad and todo-list manager with Markdown support and Nextcloud / ownCloud integration.