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

A simple application for your .md files. You can store whole your life: All in plain .md files, local-first. LLM-friendly. Try it out: app.files.md (Beta) My friends and I have been building this project for 5 years. Hope you'll like it! Sponsor on GitHub 💚 Maybe. But this time: You can use chat to quickly dump your thoughts. It will be synchronized across all devices. Open the chat and send a message: Choose where to save (can do later): With this flow you can quickly save notes, journal and checklists. Open the chat, write something and press Enter : Other messengers will follow Connect ideas. Let them compound. Think through. All this activity helped me to: To achieve all that, you'll have to use your brain , not advanced templates or AI workflows. My friends and I have been using this simple setup for five years, and it works well. I'll quote I Deleted My Second Brain : Obsidian is a brilliant piece of software. I love it, dearly. But like anything, without restraint, it can also be a trap. Markdown files in nested folders. Plugins that track your productivity. Graph views that suggest omniscience. There’s an illusion of mastery in watching your notes web into constellations. But constellations are projections. They tell stories. They do not guarantee understanding. When I first started using PKM tools, I believed I was solving a problem of forgetting. Later, I believed I was solving a problem of integration. Eventually, I realized I had created a new problem: deferral. The more my system grew, the more I deferred the work of thought to some future self who would sort, tag, distill, and extract the gold. That self never arrived. The Second Brain is thrilling. Advanced guru templates, plugins and AI workflows... One wants to scrape the wisdom of the whole internet. There's some beauty in this neat system. Every new note brings dopamine. Second Brain gets better and better. However, the first brain never actually gets smarter. And that's an issue - in the AI age, your first brain is as valuable as ever. Use your brain to think through the notes . The worst thing is that we don’t let new experiences emerge because we already have knowledge . It's a knowledge barrier. Life gives us opportunities to live through new experiences, but we refuse, because "we already know". Harm caused at the emotional level must be healed at the emotional level. Not through intellectual work and taking notes. Reading without action is entertainment. A form of procrastination. No amount of self-help books can heal emotional wounds. What can help is psychotherapy, rescripting and chair work. Meditation. Healing happens by feeling. Then taking notes is perfectly fine. You don't have to think about the structure, it is predefined. Although, you're free to use whatever structure you want. Scheme is also available at files.md/llms.txt . You can copy-paste it into CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md , so that your AI agent would understand the structure. All scripts are in cmd and can be run inside your files directory . Install Go first. Convert [[wikilinks]] to standard [Name](/path.md) ( --dry-run available): Adds links back to referencing files ( --dry-run available): Shift timestamps in journal files by N hours (useful after timezone change): Deploy on your own server Chatbot Sync flow Integration tests Refer to this guide for more comprehensive rules. Any file can be uniquely identified by filename and dir. We only support one level of nesting. The project is blazing fast :) If you're afraid of using files or mutexes unnecessarily for performance reasons, take a look at this: