Introducing Tolaria! 💧
Today I am releasing a macOS desktop app for managing markdown knowledge bases, and helping both AI and humans operate them.
It’s free and open source, and always will be.
I have been working on it for three months, and I now use it to run my life and work. I personally have a massive workspace of 10,000 notes — the result of 6 years of Refactoring — which I now operate on Tolaria.
Tolaria is the main collaboration surface with my AI agents: they create new notes there, connect them to what exists, and edit existing ones. Everything is easy to understand for them, because it’s just markdown files. In a way, it’s my implementation of @karpathy's LLM wiki.
Tolaria is also the biggest experiment I have ever run about writing software with AI:
• 2000 commits
• 100K+ lines of code
• 3000+ tests / 85% coverage
• 9.9/10 code health
• 70+ architecture decision records
I am releasing it open source also to use it as a living artifact of how I do AI coding, so you can inspect at any time things like how I write docs, what's in my AGENTS file, what hooks do I run, and so on. You can find it below:
• Newsletter announcement: https://t.co/NFzPASLrNK
• Website: https://t.co/R9qTFAeQv9
• Github repo: https://t.co/ck9gfwpzZG
Let me know your thoughts!
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