Tolaria is offline-first, file-based, has first-class support for git, and has strong opinions about how you should organize notes (types, relationships, etc).
Let me know your thoughts!
I also just keep long running notes for tracking things workouts and meals with headers for dates.
Works better than things like obsidian mobile and copy pasting is a natural filter.
- ctrl-a works to go to start of line but for some reason ctrl-e doesn't work to go to end
- ``` doesn't start a code block, you have to use 'insert code block'
Good job on paste image from clipboard though which is another feature that I think is completely essential for something like this and weirdly missing in many of them.
I downloaded and am trying it out, but I'm running into a pretty annoying sorting bug that's preventing me from using it for real. I copied over files from my Obsidian vault (preserving file times), and the first time it loaded, everything seemed to work fine. After doing the first git commit, however, Tolaria cannot seem to sort properly by last modified anymore (I'm getting notes from 2023 or 2025 up at the top). The file system tree still has the correct modified and created times.
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We kind of have used the exact philosophy in https://voiden.md/ - offline-first, file based and support for git.
This is exactly the format agents will use pretty well.
We have done this for APIs.
We are open source too. Take a look here : https://github.com/VoidenHQ/voiden
But give it a try because Tauri is very fast
I don’t care if it’s Tauri, Electron or whatever’s the new flavour of the same old lazy ass webwrapper technology.
A web app is not an actual application. Besides, I already have a browser, I don’t need another one just to open a single page so it can pretend to be an app while adhering to absolutely ZERO platform behaviour patterns.
Either go it native, or don’t even bother. If it can be run in a webwrapper, it can be run my ACTUAL a browser.
FUCK WEB APPS.
This is clean and love the git-backed approach. Would love to see a dark mode too!
- better note organization with types and relationships - different, more Notion-like UX - first class support for git as sync + version control layer - long tail of design decisions that help AI work well with vaults: types, MCP, git authorship, etc - and most of all... open source!
Worth watching how each of these tools positions the AI: as a UX copilot inside the editor, or as an autonomous agent with file-system access via local CLI/MCP.
Typora? (https://typora.io/)
It's so good for viewing all markdown in a repo, but dies all too often.
Better than the one I was planning to build for myself.
Love the UI. Love the fact that the app was made with Tauri.
Nice work, will share!
I was severely disappointed late last year when I revisited one platform where I had previously dropped quite a bit of money in the past to buy access to many courses and I now wanted to finally download them for offline watching only to find that in each and every course I had bought access to on the platform it is only the first couple of videos that are without DRM and then all of the remaining videos in each of the courses use Widevine DRM.
I even investigated a bit whether Widewine DRM is possible to decrypt but it seems to be very difficult, requiring knowledge and access to things that I doubt I would be able to figure out.
I would rather in the future spend money on courses that are not DRM protected in the first place, than to give any more money to any learning platforms where they use DRM on the videos.
Topics of interest include:
- Advanced software development
- Distributed systems
- PostgreSQL database internals
- ZFS file system internals
- Debugging
- Reverse engineering
- 3d modelling in Blender and rendering
- Vulkan graphics programming
- Game development with Godot
- Piano playing techniques
- Electronic music production with Ableton Live
- Mixing and mastering tracks with Ableton Live + any third party VSTs necessary
- Drawing and painting digitally
- DJing, turntablism and scratching on digital DJ controllers
Boo. Boooooooooo. Thanks but no thanks.
Max lifespan 2 years
If you want something to stick around: you have to use and pay for it.
If youre gonna shut this one down, at the very least do it for the right reasons such as the fact that this is a webwrapper—absolutely disgusting, either go native or don’t bother shoving your webpage into a browser-container and calling it what it is not (an app).
I'm building Sig <https://github.com/adamjramirez/sig-releases> and the architecture overlap is obvious: macOS, plain markdown, git-versioned, designed as context for AI agents.
The difference is where in the workflow we start. Tolaria seems to excel at organizing knowledge that already exists. Sig is trying to solve what happens before that - how to get the knowledge out of your head and into files in the first place. Most of what actually determines the quality of your AI output was never written down: the decision made in the last five minutes of a meeting, the verbal commitment with no follow-up, your actual read on what a conversation meant (not the surface version).
Sig's capture is two layers: 1) factual record first, 2) your personal interpretation on top. Both stored as markdown on your machine. When you're ready to share to a team knowledge base/open brain, it's an explicit decision to do so and opt-in — private by default, team-readable only when you choose.
I'll definitely give this a spin.
The "magic" starts when Sig contributes to another, remote repo - a central knowledge base that all teammates' local Sig can pull from, and contribute toward.