Generally curious, how is this different from pointing Claude Cowork at an Obsidian Vault?

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.

Does the LLM auto-tagging and embedding pipeline run on the device, or are they remote calls?

So an Obsidian plugin? Got it.

One can imagine an obsidian plugin of any arbitrary level of complexity, given it's written in a Turing-complete language.

I don't think they have added a Obsidian Bases / Notion Database like feature yet, right? Saw some discussion of adding a NocoDB integration, but also didn't see that happen yet.

Trying to watermark or otherwise label them as AI generated is a lost fight, we should assume every image and video we see online may be AI generated.

This helps the segment of society that is interested in applying critical thinking to what they see. I am not sure that is anything like a majority or even a significant plurality. It seems like just about every image or video gets accused of being AI these days, but predictably the accusations depend on the ideology of the accuser.

Pure black background with pure white elements is a common accessibility issue.

And just curious, why would using "only" 16 colors be silly?

Maybe silly is the wrong word. But sometimes I think I would make things easier on myself if I allowed some shade variants. It's good for me to keep the constraint though.

I've been spending some time creating a Visual Studio theme using this palette and the way that IDE uses colors is... less than great. Trying to find the right token to change is an exercise in madness, and many things that are visually the same in importance/hierarchy use very slightly different shades for some unknown reason.

I'm not sure DocMost is a Notion alternative, it's just a note-taking tool without many of the features that give Notion its unique position.

I'm always disappointed by note-taking tools calling themselves a Notion alternative when they do not provide an alternative to Notion and are instead just another note-taking tool with a simple UI.

If you want to be a Notion alternative provide the things that make Notion great, e.g. the database functionality. It's okay to be a simple colaborative notes tool, but that is not a Notion alternative.

Perhaps try it first before dismissing it as just a “note-taking tool,” which it isn’t.

We have support for team-spaces, permissions, diagrams, real-time collaboration, comments, page verification workflows, AI, SSO/LDAP, search, audit logs, API, public sharing, and a lot more.

Btw, we have plans to introduce a database-like feature.

Confluence and Notion are not equivalent products. Docmost looks to be similar to Confluence - a full fat wiki, but the whole point of Notion was its database-like features.

I'd say Affine or Obsidian.

Obsidian is built on-top of just markdown files, so you can do whatever you want with them. E.g. if you need multiplayer editing you could use 3rd party solutions or even something like HedgeDoc.

Affine is more closer to Notion and self-hostable.

Obsidian: https://obsidian.md/

Affine: https://affine.pro/

I wrote a more detailed comparison of Notion vs Obsidian here: https://bryanhogan.com/blog/notion-obsidian-comparison

I kinda dislike where Notion is heading though, forcing more and more things on their users without any ways to disable them. But yes, it's capable to do what you are looking for.

Maybe Affine could also work though, you can self-host it and it's more customizable: https://affine.pro/

I wrote my own piece about South Korea / Seoul: https://bryanhogan.com/blog/south-korea-travel-guide

Felt like it's worth sharing here!

Seoul is such a huge place with tons of different areas that each could be a city by itself.

Edit:

I just checked the (sadly paywalled) beginning of the article and the author also says:

> [...] alley of small apartments and trucks selling garlic, the next you’re in a modern business park so sterile it feels like a doctor’s office.

So do I understand correctly that this is a competitor to something like n8n, but instead entirely vibe-coded?

n8n: https://n8n.io/