Opensidian

Show HN: Opensidian: Local-first notes in the browser with POSIX shell and sync

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Hey HN! Braden here. Some of you might know me from Whispering a while back (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44942731).Obsidian was one of the biggest inspirations behind the Epicenter project. I used it daily and think it's incredible software. But it's not open source, and Obsidian Sync never quite worked the way I wanted it to. I think any tool that sits this deep in your personal knowledge system should be open source and auditable.So I built Opensidian as an open-source proof of concept: what happens when you store notes as Yjs CRDTs, sync them across servers, encrypt them end-to-end, and put a POSIX-like filesystem on top?To do this, I built `@epicenter/filesystem`, which exposes

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