Tentacle – Local-first note taking app that organizes itself

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Hey HN, I'm Nicolas, this is my first post here.I built Tentacle after trying a bunch of PKM apps that either - required a cloud account to function - were hard to setup and use - or searched by exact keyword match in 2026.Tentacle is an open-source native desktop app (macOS, Windows, Linux) that stores your notes as plain markdown files in a folder you pick and indexes them in a local sqlite db with some extensions.You don't need an account and there's no vendor lock. Just .md files you can open in vim if you want or copy anywhere else.The core feature is semantic search, you type "how we decided to handle authentication" and it finds your note titled "Login Flow Options" even though the wo

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Website: www.tentaclenote.app