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New comment by lucaronin in "Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases"

lucaronin — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:21:18 +0000

I actually largely solved this with OpenClaw — i send stuff via telegram and it creates good notes in Tolaria, already linked to what exists and what's relevant

I send web links of tools that I want to store of resources, voice notes to be turned into written notes, etc

but I will still build a mobile version for sure!

New comment by lucaronin in "Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases"

lucaronin — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:19:54 +0000

big fan of Bear! It was a big influence for Tolaria — that's why you like it!

thank you for the great feedback mate

New comment by lucaronin in "Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases"

lucaronin — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 07:00:30 +0000

``` should definitely start a code block! I do it all the time, and also just tried it now. Can you try again or tell me what you see? Simply nothing happening?

New comment by lucaronin in "Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases"

lucaronin — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:58:11 +0000

I get the obsidian question all the time! The differences are:

- 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!

New comment by lucaronin in "Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases"

lucaronin — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:55:58 +0000

you bet it!

New comment by lucaronin in "Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases"

lucaronin — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:55:25 +0000

thank you so much!

New comment by lucaronin in "Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases"

lucaronin — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:54:36 +0000

the idea of being git-first it's exactly for that! so you can setup AI as a git contributor and see its changes clearly

New comment by lucaronin in "Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases"

lucaronin — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:53:44 +0000

releasing it over the next couple of days

New comment by lucaronin in "Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases"

lucaronin — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:53:28 +0000

I started Tolaria in Swift but met very real limitations especially in the Markdown editor part. It's very hard to build something that is Notion like in that department with Swift.

But give it a try because Tauri is very fast

New comment by lucaronin in "Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases"

lucaronin — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:51:08 +0000

that's weird will look into it! thanks for reporting

Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases

lucaronin — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:01:59 +0000

Hey there! I am Luca, I write https://refactoring.fm/ and I built Tolaria for myself to manage my own knowledge base (10K notes, 300+ articles written in over 6 years of newslettering) and work well with AI.

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!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47882697

Points: 258

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My AI Coding Workflow

lucaronin — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 09:45:52 +0000

Article URL: https://refactoring.fm/p/my-ai-coding-workflow

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47149459

Points: 1

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New comment by lucaronin in "Is Elon Right?"

lucaronin — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 18:47:13 +0000

Of course anything can happen in the long run, but right now it sells products that millions of people love and is a public company that employs 1000s of people — that's already a pretty high bar to me!