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Live markdown truth for team knowledge graphs, Kanban boards, documents and CRMs.
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Efficient queries, so your markdown context scales. Focused retrieval, less token bloat.
SQL queries are 36,000× faster
“What active work is waiting on something unfinished?”
- query_sql tool call
SELECT w.name, b.name FROM links JOIN records …View query
SELECT w.name, b.name FROM links l JOIN records w ON w.id = l.source_id JOIN records b ON b.id = l.target_id WHERE l.relationship IN ('depends_on', 'blocked_by') AND w.type = 'WorkItem' AND w.lifecycle IN ('open', 'in_progress', 'blocked') AND b.lifecycle IN ('open', 'in_progress', 'blocked'); - using a CLI processor, awk
awk -f join.awk *.md - markdown search
for f in $(find . -name '*.md'); do …View query
cd "Aldermere Ferry Co" # join: what active work is waiting on something unfinished? # every edge is a bare [[Name]] — no type, no direction — so a # mention reads as a dependency and depends_on cannot be told # from part_of or blocks for f in $(find . -name '*.md'); do grep -qE '^type: WorkItem' "$f" || continue grep -qE '^lifecycle: (open|in_progress|blocked)' "$f" || continue while IFS= read -r link; do t=$(grep -rl "^title: ${link}$" . | head -1) [ -n "$t" ] && grep -qE '^lifecycle: (open|in_progress|blocked)' "$t" \ && echo "$(basename "$f") waits on $link" done < <(grep -oE '\[\[[^]]+\]\]' "$f" | tr -d '[]') done
More signal, less noise
Health warnings on stale context. Agents and teammates kept in-sync.
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Context that’s uniquely yours. Choose where you store it, how it’s modelled, who gets to see it and how you render it.
| Capability | Native | Obsidian | Notion | Google Drive | Vendor memory | Enterprise search |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open-source engine | yes | no | no | no | no | no |
| Transparent markdown content | yes | yes | no | no | no | no |
| Real-time cloud context | yes | partial | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Run locally or on your server | yes | yes | no | no | no | no |
| Any agent or model | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | yes |
| Granular sharing controls | yes | partial | yes | yes | partial | yes |
| Custom data model | yes | partial | yes | no | no | no |
| Agents can rewrite your UI | yes | partial | no | no | no | no |
CapabilityNativeObsidian
Open-source engineyesnonononono
Transparent markdown contentyesyesnononono
Real-time cloud contextyespartialyesyesyesyes
Run locally or on your serveryesyesnononono
Any agent or modelyesyesyesyesnoyes
Granular sharing controlsyespartialyesyespartialyes
Custom data modelyespartialyesnonono
Agents can rewrite your UIyespartialnononono