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We definitely need open source tools. I personally use Logseq and have a lot of notes. I want to use AI to better search and make connections, using something like ChromaDB. Logseq is mainly for text. What My Mind (mymind.com) does for "smart bookmarking" is really great. No folders, collections at most if you really need it. Making the most use of digital knowledge is something that really needs to be focused on. It can accelerate a lot of things. And we must stop doing this with yet another cloud note-taking app with OpenAI integration with a bunch of (personally) useless collaborative features. I want my own mind that works for me and in my interest.

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First time I heard of My Mind. Looks really nice, but how is it not yet another cloud note taking app?

To me, the biggest problem of this kind of tool is that if you use it to its fullest potential, it necessarily becomes a crucial part of your daily life, something that will cause very serious problems if you lose it.

And that means anything proprietary or closed SaaS is an absolute no go. My Mind's promise to respect privacy and stay independent of outside influence is nice, but worthless. They can change their mind at any time - or get bought up, or go bankrupt. Being a paid service might reduce the likelihood, but does not eliminate it, especially not over a timespan of decades.

So at an absolute minimum, such a tool needs to be able and willing to export all of my data in an easily processible format. This is far more important than shiny features.

My current solution is a self hosted TiddlyWiki. It may not have all the shiny features, but it is mine, and always will be, even 50 years from now. The worst case scenario is that it stops working on new browsers and nobody maintains it anymore - but I still have the data. Easily processible text files are actually its internal storage format.

try anytype.io , a lot better logseq its opensource too. It will also have realtime sync and sharing in next milestone

https://github.com/anyproto/anytype-ts/blob/main/LICENSE.md

this appears to be source available not open source

Damn thats sucks. At least their sync server is opensource

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