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Tolaria
A free + open source app to manage your AI second brain
Tolaria is a second brain built for the AI era — open source, free forever, no account required.
Every note is a plain Markdown file on your disk. No database, no proprietary format. Read them in any editor, grep from the terminal, version them with Git.
What makes it different:
Block-based editor that writes like Notion but saves as clean Markdown, with wikilinks, slash commands, and drag-and-drop images
Native relationships as a first-class citizen, not an afterthought
Full Git client built in: commit, push, browse history, and track changes per note without leaving the app
MCP server out of the box: Claude Code works with your notes natively, with Git keeping you in control of every change
Built by Luca, from 5 years of full-time content creation, 300+ articles, and 9000+ notes worth of hard-won lessons on how knowledge actually needs to be organized.
Tolaria starts from my experience running Refactoring, one of the largest engineering newsletters in the world (170,000+ subs). I wrote a full introduction post here.
I love open source software — Tolaria will always stay FOSS.
Looking forward to hearing your comments!
About Tolaria on Product Hunt
“A free + open source app to manage your AI second brain”
Tolaria was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 29 upvotes and 2 comments, placing #42 on the daily leaderboard. Organize your notes as Markdown files. With native relationships, Git, and Claude Code integration. Free forever.
Tolaria was featured in Productivity (650.8k followers), Artificial Intelligence (467.3k followers) and GitHub (41.2k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 239.8k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Tolaria?
Tolaria was hunted by Adithya Shreshti. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Adithya Shreshti
Tolaria is a second brain built for the AI era — open source, free forever, no account required.
Every note is a plain Markdown file on your disk. No database, no proprietary format. Read them in any editor, grep from the terminal, version them with Git.
What makes it different:
Block-based editor that writes like Notion but saves as clean Markdown, with wikilinks, slash commands, and drag-and-drop images
Native relationships as a first-class citizen, not an afterthought
Full Git client built in: commit, push, browse history, and track changes per note without leaving the app
MCP server out of the box: Claude Code works with your notes natively, with Git keeping you in control of every change
Built by Luca, from 5 years of full-time content creation, 300+ articles, and 9000+ notes worth of hard-won lessons on how knowledge actually needs to be organized.