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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.
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BunNote
Discontinued Write and manage notes directly from VS Code with full markdown support [GET https://api.github.com/repos/hariiy-sys/BunNote: 404 - Not Found // See: https://docs.github.com/rest/repos/repos#get-a-repository]
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DocMason
DocMason is a repo-native agent that turns your complex office files into a local LLM knowledge base and your second brain. The repo is the app. Codex is the runtime.
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Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI
A music theory learning tool. I'm building bits as I learn new areas - https://www.asmusictheory.com
I also built a kanban board with agent integration and context management, with a vs code extension to go with it (also helps with git worktrees too): https://www.agentkanban.io
There is AS Notes - an Obsidian / Logseq / Roam alternative for use a s a VS code extension (is designed for use behind corporate firewalls, git friendly): https://www.asnotes.io
Also NumeroMoney: https://www.nuneromoney.com - For personal finance spending analysis and budgeting.
AI has been a great 'exoskeleton' for me. I fortunately had some good infrastructure and solid application base templates from before AI 'got gud' and so building on these has been the best of both worlds - a solid base and improved speed of development.
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Show HN: Files.md – open-source alternative to Obsidian
The licence method we went with for AS Notes (https://www.asnotes.io - a wikilinks and markdown based notes / docs / blog extension for VS code) was to make the client (extension) fully opensource with a public / private cryptographic licence key model, with a couple of pro gated features. I think an opensource product is very important for a notes product, where the implications of loosing access to a tool are huge for users that invest a lot of time in a knowledge base.
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File System Is a Graph Database
I created AS Notes (https://www.asnotes.io) (an extension for VS Code, Antigravity etc) partly because of this use case. It works like Obsidian, being markdown based, with wikilinks, mermaid rendering and task management. In VS Code, we have access to really good Agent harnesses and can navigate our notes and documents in a file system like manner. Further, using AGENTS.md, idea files etc we can instruct the agent how to interact, add to our notes etc. I've found working with my notes like this really useful, and provided I trim anything generated by an AI that's not going to be useful, provides an investment in the information I've gathered as the information is retained in markdown rather than getting lost in multiple chatbot UI s.
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LLM Wiki
I built AS Notes for VS Code (https://www.asnotes.io) with the option for this usage pattern in mind. By augmenting VS Code so it has the tooling we use in personal knowledge management systems, it makes it easy to write, link and update markdown / wikilinked notes manually (with mermaid / LaTeX rendering capability also) - but by using VS Code we have easy access to an Agent harness that we can direct to work on, or use our notes as context. Others have pointed out that context bloat is an issue, but no more so than when you use the copilot harness (or any other) inside a large codebase. I find I get more value from my AI conversations when I persist the outputs in markdown like this.
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The CMS is dead. Long live the CMS
I agree. Now we have the ability to have agents reason over our notes, it's more important for them to be in plain text. It was a big part of the reason I developed the AS Notes extension for managing documentation and blogs in VS Code / Markdown (https://www.asnotes.io)
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Why the heck are we still using Markdown?
Because we need to get information down quickly, but still have the option of parsing to a presentable format. Markdown is not perfect, but it's far better for the efficient capture of information or document authoring. I recently built AS Notes for VS Code (https://www.asnotes.io). It's markdown based, with wikilinks, mermaid diagrams, with the ability to publish to github pages etc. There is no way I'm writing my day to day notes with HTML and anchor tags without it being a huge distraction. And HTML is so much harder to read in longform if you need to come back end edit your writing. Markdown is for humans where HTML was designed to be simple, but is ultimately for parsers.
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AS Notes - VS Code Notes, Docs and Wikilink Markdown Editing
Install: Visual Studio Marketplace / Open VSX GitHub: github.com/appsoftwareltd/as-notes
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