| ▲ | Show HN: Open-source Markdown research tool written in Rust – Ekphos(github.com) |
| 33 points by haneboxx 6 days ago | 14 comments |
| Hi! I just made an obsdian alternative in terminal after searching for an Obsidian like TUI and got nothing. So I built one myself. |
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| ▲ | sroerick a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| Beautiful I'm too far down the org roam rabbit hole to ever come out but... If you get org support give me a holler. Looks really nice |
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| ▲ | haneboxx 13 hours ago | parent [-] | | Thanks! tbh, I've never heard about org-roam, probably because of the Emacs thing, I've never really used Emacs. I'll look into it :) | | |
| ▲ | sroerick 13 hours ago | parent [-] | | It basically implements Roam / Obsidian features inside Emacs Org directories by installing a SQLite layer to manage linking and node management. Its a beautiful piece of software, its feature complete and finished. |
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| ▲ | sanufar 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Wow, looks really nice, and the README’s super comprehensive. I don’t know if I missed it or not, but do you support inter-note link navigation (like Obsidian WikiLinks)? I know markdown-oxide did this with LSP actions, but I’d love to know more about your plans for navigation/lsp-like features, if any |
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| ▲ | wek 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| A paragraph or two on your motivation for this and the benefits of this approach would be helpful. Thanks! |
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| ▲ | haneboxx 13 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yeah sure :) The motivation is actually really that simple. I was searching for a markdown editor similar to Obsidian with a terminal user interface, but I couldn't find any that really fit the needs of a proper markdown tool like Obsidian. Though Ekphos isn't yet reaching what Obsidian is capable of, we're surely getting closer and closer. But I want to take only what really matters from Obsidian, so it doesn't get bloated and people can really focus on writing the markdown |
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| ▲ | c4kar 21 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| looks promising but i prefer nvim instead of learning a new tool. |
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| ▲ | ktallett 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It is very pretty but curious if there are any advantages over Obsidian? |
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| ▲ | haneboxx 13 hours ago | parent [-] | | Feature wise, not all will be implemented due to the limitations of a terminal user interface, but it has upsides in performance and being lightweight, plus native nvim keybindings for nvim users |
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| ▲ | bebna a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Why not (n)vim or emacs and some plugins? |
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| ▲ | haneboxx 14 hours ago | parent [-] | | I was thinking a plugin wouldn't be sufficient for extending it beyond a regular markdown editor, so I went for a full standalone app instead for better upgradeability, optimization, etc. |
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| ▲ | LordDragonfang 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| So you say it's inspired by Obsidian (and call it an "alternative") but notably missing from your table of syntax support are [[wikilinks]], which for many (I would guess most) users would prevent this from being a drop-in replacement, even for just viewing a vault. Is there a reason you chose not to support them? |
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| ▲ | haneboxx 13 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yes, internal links will be introduced in the next version along with other features like standard theming and more. Ekphos is currently in a rapid development stage and is slowly reaching core markdown feature parity with Obsidian. Feel free to open a discussion in the gitHub repo for things that would be nice to add to Ekphos :) |
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