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Show HN: Files.md – open-source alternative to Obsidian

https://github.com/zakirullin/files.md
54•zakirullin•1h ago

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krthr•56m ago
I really like the look and feel!
zakirullin•54m ago
Thanks a lot! I've been perfecting things for 5 years. A week ago I decided to open source it finally :)
dewey•41m ago
That's the comment that made me check it out in more detail, as that sticks out from all the other projects that were built in a weekend in the past months.
zakirullin•29m ago
Thanks! There's a lot to it, and for years me and my friends were using the project.

A lot of us built knowledge bases, and we enjoyed it all quite a bit.

dilawar•36m ago
Nice project. People may also want to checkout Tiddlywiki.
blamestross•35m ago
Gods I love and loath Tiddlywiki. It has some of the most convoluted javascript written before javascript ever actually got all the features that made javascript convoluted. But it did the job!
swed420•26m ago
> People may also want to checkout Tiddlywiki.

Also Zettlr

armsaw•36m ago
Is there a way to follow inline links from a mobile device? Doesn’t seem to work for me in mobile Safari.
zakirullin•32m ago
It is not very well tested on mobiles yet.

People use chatbot on the mobiles - way more convenient.

You can both read/write notes through the chat.

zakirullin•28m ago
I believe that not only you should own your data in plain files, but also you should own the software that opens those files.

So that your files and tools can grow together, fully under your ownership, through the ages.

The app can be easily tweaked for your own needs via an LLM - code is optimized for that.

P.S. And Golang seems to be great fit for this kind of software.

qitz•20m ago
Nice Project, I really like the look!
zakirullin•15m ago
Thanks! I am glad you enjoyed it. For the past week alone, I made 500+ commits, fixing all sorts of UI/UX fixes to perfect things out.

I believe I put too much time into it during all those years, but I don't regret it. Because I use the project on daily basis.

himata4113•15m ago
This made me realize that obsidian is *not* opensource, but in a way obsidian made me feel like it was opensource. Obviously now that I researched it, it is quite obvious that it is not, but still it 'feels' like it should be opensource.
zakirullin•14m ago
That was the reason a few years ago I started this project.

It seems like software in AI-era should be distributed open source.

So that anyone could tweak it however he wants. Not though buggy plugins system.

trvz•13m ago
And the developers get compensated for their work how?
zakirullin•11m ago
That's yet to be decided :D

For the first time, I put a sponsorship button. Will see if it works.

philipallstar•12m ago
> It seems like software in AI-era should be distributed open source.

That makes it easy for AI to be trained on it.

theultdev•9m ago
Yeah, also makes it easy for humans to train on it.

That's the point of open source, sharing the knowledge.

We'll all make the same shit over and over if noone shares.

But if we all share, then the only thing left to make is the unknown.

ocimbote•13m ago
I wouldn't show it as an alternative to Obsidian though. It shares MD files with it and both are supposedly about note taking ("supposedly" is for Obsidian, I haven't tried Files.md yet), but Files.md seems to have its own way of making the users work with their thoughts, notes and knowledge altogether.

When I read "an alternative", I assumed feature-parity and API compatibility. But what I found out was entirely different and much more interesting.

I'll give it a try, thanks for sharing your year-old work!

solarkraft•8m ago
> When I read "an alternative", I assumed feature-parity and API compatibility

When I read “alternative” I immediately had a rant in my head about people calling things alternatives that are not.

amai•8m ago
I'm missing export in https://textbundle.org/ format.

"TextBundle brings convenience back - by bundling the Markdown text and all referenced images into a single file."

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