u/Justshutuppleasenow

honestly this started because i kept bouncing between notion and obsidian and got tired of picking one.

so its one app with three parts. the editor is just your markdown files sitting in a folder on your disk, nothing weird, you can open them in anything else too. the graph is the obsidian bit so you can see how your notes connect. and the database is the notion bit, sorting and filters and board and table views, over those same files.

thats the part i actually care about. like your database row and your markdown file arent two things that sync into each other, theyre the same file. i think thats what gets missed every time someone tries to do notion but local.

theres also a claude code integration but its not a chatbot bolted onto the side. the app is laid out so an agent can just read the structure instead of spending the first ten minutes of every session working out where all your stuff is.

its free and open source. the only paid part is ever gonna be things that actually cost me money to run, like cloud sync if you want it. windows mac and linux.

not gonna lie the editor is still rough and im in the middle of stress testing, it breaks. so this isnt a launch, its more me checking if the idea is even right before i go further.

so maybe im wrong here but if you use notion, which view would you actually miss if you moved everything into plain files tomorrow? sometimes i think im building the wrong one first

Unlike a human brain locked to a single consciousness, a second brain stack can run multiple agents over the same knowledge base simultaneously, each with different goals and specializations.

would coping a human or any animals brain be the best outcome for creating a good second brain?

I kept running into things I liked about one while using the other, so I started building something that combines the parts I actually like from both.

The main idea is pretty simple:

Editor — your actual Markdown files.

Graph — the Obsidian side, where you can see how everything connects.

Database — the Notion side. Structured information, sorting, different views, etc. I really like how Notion makes it easier to understand what’s actually inside your workspace instead of everything just being a pile of notes.

I also really don’t like needing a different subscription for every part of my workflow. I want the files to stay local, and I’m working on local syncing so you could open the same vault on your phone and computer and have them sync directly when they’re on the same network.

And then there’s Claude Code. It has a direct connection to the system, so it can actually work with the same information instead of just being a chatbot sitting next to it.

I’m still building a lot of this, but I think combining the way Obsidian stores and connects information with the way Notion presents and organizes it is really interesting.

I’m curious what Notion users think. what parts of Notion would you absolutely want to keep if you were building something like this?

I find useful stuff all the time while scrolling through YouTube Shorts or TikTok and it just disappears. I use Obsidian as my second brain and getting a video from my phone into my vault is like so annoying and I'm not sure if I'm missing something.

I have to sign into iCloud and then download it and then find it and then drag it into the right folder and I'm not sure if everyone is just dealing with this or if there's actually a better way.

How are people handling video capture on mobile into their second brain? Is there anything that actually works?

I have a Notion workspace set up as my second brain. Articles, tweets, links all go in super clean with the Web Clipper. But video? I hit share on a YouTube Short or TikTok and there's no native option. I end up just texting myself the link which defeats the whole point.

Would pay for an app that just does "share video → pick destination (Notion, Obsidian, Drive folder, etc.) → done." Does this exist?