Ask questions across your Markdown notes using a fully local Graph RAG engine. Built for Obsidian vaults, works with any folder of Markdown files. Extracts entity-relation triples from wikilinks & YAML frontmatter, retrieves answers via hybrid search (vector + BM25 + temporal). Multilingual. No cloud. Runs on Ollama.
I love all the options, they are pretty cool. this question might be me reinventing the wheel. but it seems like the options are so varied. one runs locally but doesnt have sync, another has free sync but no community plug ins (or very few), many just use the customer's cloud services to sync which seems lazy imo for a service provider, most have E2EE but not all, some have different ways of nesting (ei the whole page or a specific spot on the page).
how many people have taken it upon themselves to just make their own with all the features they want? so much of this is open source anyways, on paper it would be a matter of mixing and matching app capabilities.
im asking because I was thinking of getting a small local model (1b or less) to go through my notes, and make tags for me anytime i uploaded an ai conversation. then I started thinking about the note apps I use (obsidian and notesnook) and the ones I dont and how it would be nice to combine alot of these features.
TLDR; has anyone made their own note app with all the features they want?
Fed up of paying just to sync between my iPhone and MacOS.
Any true free alternative please.
I tried obsidian but felt it was too complicated and I don’t need so many features.
Also sync was paid there as well.
Hey everyone! I wanted to share a small tool I’ve been building called WritHer.
The idea is simple: it lives in your system tray and gives you two things.
Hold AltGr anywhere (any app, any text field) and just speak. It transcribes your voice with Whisper and pastes the text right where your cursor is. No clicking, no switching apps.
Hold Ctrl+R and you get a voice assistant that understands natural language. You can say things like “remind me to call Marco in one hour” or “appointment with the dentist tomorrow at 3pm” and it handles the rest. Notes, to-do lists, shopping lists, reminders with toast notifications, all stored locally in SQLite.
The part I’m most proud of: everything runs 100% offline. Speech recognition via faster-whisper, intent parsing via Ollama, no cloud, no API keys, no telemetry. Once you download the models it works with no internet at all.
There’s also a little animated floating widget with eyes that react to what it’s doing (listening, thinking, error…) which is silly but I kind of love it.
It’s Python, MIT license, Windows 10/11 only for now.
GitHub: https://github.com/benmaster82/writher
Would love feedback, especially from anyone who uses voice input regularly. Still early days but it works well for my daily workflow!
Hello remarkable people! For years I lived looking for the best ways to take notes: ideas, references of all kinds. All kinds of notebooks until I managed to buy my first Palm top... That was in 2005... Since then, there was a serious problem: devices evolved, programs disappeared, subscription fees were charged and I was left with a truncated backup... No index, nothing... Notes of ideas for me as a designer, screenwriter, creator, after all, they are essential... An entire project comes out of one sentence...
What's all this talk for? I understood that the notes had to be future-proof... I searched and searched. I tested and tested: When I gave up on Logseq I accepted Joplin but only because there was nothing like it and FOSS... It's ugly and truncated but that's what there was.
Until I found what I came to show you and ask you for help. In the recesses of Codeberg, I found Helix Notes in my research, looking almost app by app! Finally something as good as Joplin but much better. And that would finally be my "definitive" app because besides being great, if it can't be used eventually, my data is structured for any other alternative, to even read it on Notepad!
I'm writing out of "self-interest": I really want Helix Notes to prosper for many years to come.
With the help of an AI, I produced a Joplin migration script that worked quite well for me in this version of Helix... It's here.
And its potential to also be a future-proof task app also exists. I wrote this issue. I hope you support in any way possible and if there are any developers here reading, I would really appreciate some help!
u/LastTyper
I built the most organized vault I could. Tags, folders, templates, daily notes, periodic reviews.
The problem I have is not that I can't find things. It's that I don't know to look for them.
I'll be mid-meeting and realize there was something relevant in my notes I never thought to check. I'll be writing and know I've covered this topic before but the search terms I'm trying don't surface it. I'll be on a call and the connection to something I read three months ago hits me, after the call.
Local files are great. I'm not going back to cloud-only. But ""my data is here"" and ""my data is available when I actually need it"" are different problems and I only solved the first one.
Lately I've been pairing Obsidian with Invoko. I ask it what's in my vault that's relevant to what I'm currently working on, it reads across whatever I have open. Not a replacement for organized notes, but it closes the gap between ""the note exists"" and ""the note is useful.""
Still figuring out if this is a workflow or a crutch. Curious if others have hit the same thing.
Hey everyone, this maybe is repetitive and also might go beyond the scope of the reddit but I am wondering if anyone has any recommendations for apps that will sync very quickly between my mac and surface pro. Currently I use onenote, and I find it to be kind of a pain, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnt. Sometimes in order to sync the notebook im working in it painfully syncs all of the other notebooks as well. The bulk of what I do as math, and I am constantly switching between like pasting screenshots of problems in the current page im in, working on problem sets, typing notes etc. and I am sort of fed up with the inconsistent sync among other issues with onenote(scribble to erase I am LOOKING at you).
My question is also, could it be the case that the os mismatch between my surface and mac is to blame. That is, does anyone have any insight on how much faster the sync would be if I instead used an ipad to take notes. I would be more than willing to sell the surface and get a used ipad if the difference was noticeable.
Any help to this half formulated question is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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