Show HN: Atomic – Local-first, AI-augmented personal knowledge base (opens in new tab)

Lots of good ideas and divergent methods and sources here cheers for the link

What's the other one? I cannot find it.

This is .. honestly a great synopsis of Atomic and its design tradeoffs. Thanks! Giving commonplace a look.

Biggest difference is Atomic leverages an LLM to auto-tag and a text embedding pipeline to drive semantic search - so the knowledge base is self-organizing. The bet here is that having an agent grep the filesystem is fine for a carefully curated, relatively small set of markdown files. It starts to degrade if you approach your knowledge base as a place to put everything: personal notes, articles you find interesting, entire textbooks if you want to. Having a vector database in this context is pretty much required past a certain scale; a filesystem-based approach is just an incredibly inefficient way to do retrieval in this context, and your agent is bound to miss important data points.

nice username :)

fair point, the app makes requests to load fonts. we'll fix that next release.

but there are a lot of them

working on it https://github.com/kenforthewin/atomic/tree/main/mobile/andr...

Thanks for the feedback. Yeah, I admit copywriting is not my forte. i'm a solo dev, I'm focusing most of the time and energy on the product itself. There are always 100 things I could be polishing for Atomic - social media presence, website, docs, etc. even with AI there just aren't enough hours in the day - you have to triage somehow.

As someone that makes regular use of the em-dash, comments like this are rather maddening.

I still refuse to self-censor to avoid having my actual writing get flagged by someone as LLM written.

This was good feedback - Website has been updated!