Show HN: MarkdownDB open-source library giving you an SQL API to Markdown files

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10 pointsrufuspollock2 comments

This looks awesome! I currently use org-roam for a ton of stuff: personal note taking / knowledge graph, blogging, journaling, exploratory programming, etc. I'm not likely to switch away from my system, but it's hard to recommend my system to others, because Org is not very widely used, and it's not as easy to use without help from your editor as Markdown is. It seems like you could do a lot of what I use org-roam for using this instead.

Totally! We're really love plain-text pkm.

We have this overall sense that "markdown is eating the world" in the sense that it is becoming a more and more ubiquitous and powerful format. What i would term "markdown plus" i.e. markdown plus extensions like frontmatter, wikilinks, typed backtick blocks you have something really pretty expressive - and add MDX and you have full JS(X) components.

At least, for reasonably small use cases (think under a 1000 items), this makes a collection of markdown files a great basis for a whole bunch of use cases from a document database to a PKM etc.

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