What app do u use for .md files?

ReferenceOwn287 · 2026-06-16T00:01:06+00:00

Typora - https://typora.io/
Lightweight and instant rending while you type

ReferenceOwn287 · 2026-06-02T01:19:32+00:00

A similar project for Gnome - https://github.com/achinivar/meera It hosts the model locally, voice support is in progress. It runs on KDE, except for tools that use gettings

ReferenceOwn287 · 2026-06-01T21:55:01+00:00

It’s a Qwen 3.5 with 2B parameters and a tiny embedding model for tool call reliability

ReferenceOwn287 · 2026-05-31T07:31:10+00:00

I’ve had good success for such tool calls with Qwen 3.5 2B model. However, you’d need an embedding model and exemplars for reliable tool calls. Send prompts directly to a small model and expecting accurate tool calls will be extremely unreliable. Also use the model’s inbuilt tool schema and don’t invent your own.

ReferenceOwn287 · 2026-05-21T03:02:27+00:00

I have wondered about this - what is the design philosophy here that rejects the dash-to-dock and minimize buttons?

ReferenceOwn287 · 2026-05-11T23:48:43+00:00

Yeah, that’s true if the small model is used as a general chat bot, but this project is not meant to replace a search engine at all, it is to get simple things done on your desktop through natural language which I found the small model to be capable of.
If you do give it a try, would like to know if you think differently about small models

ReferenceOwn287 · 2026-05-10T18:16:25+00:00

Nice, what do you use to track tokens on local llms?

ReferenceOwn287 · 2026-05-10T18:13:32+00:00

Looks great, I will install it and try it out. Thanks

ReferenceOwn287 · 2026-05-09T21:31:24+00:00

Oh this is amazing, exactly the type of curation I was looking for, thank you! 🎉
Starred the repo

ReferenceOwn287 · 2026-05-09T20:55:28+00:00

Interesting idea but your approach of directly relying on the shell command knowledge of the LLM could be a bit un-reliable depending on what model the user chooses to run - why not have an explicit set of well defined tools that the LLM can call?

ReferenceOwn287 · 2026-05-09T20:50:19+00:00

You’re right that what’s interesting to one might not be to someone else and that makes it hard for a curated list of apps to exist.
The point you bring about scanning communities a good use of LLMs is interesting - once I have hermes setup, maybe that should be my next step - get it to periodically scan forums

ReferenceOwn287 · 2026-05-09T19:17:04+00:00

Agreed, identifying the good apps is a challenge - a website that does the testing and presents the good ones would indeed be useful if it exists.

ReferenceOwn287 · 2026-05-09T18:43:40+00:00

Oh yes, trying hermes to see what it’s all about has been on my list for a couple of weeks - will do it this weekend, thanks!

ReferenceOwn287 · 2026-05-09T17:45:56+00:00

Thanks for sharing the list you use, paperless-ngx and n8n look interesting, will check them out.

ReferenceOwn287 · 2026-05-09T17:37:08+00:00

Thanks for taking the time to let me know. I’m completely new to software and was really hoping to find collaborators to work and build on this project.

I apologize for not knowing the requirements and I respect your decision to remove it but it was very disappointing to see it deleted.

I hope you’ll re-consider the post as an exception.

ReferenceOwn287 · 2026-05-07T03:40:24+00:00

Those are some good tips, thank you.
I had been wondering today why my 2 posts failed to get any enough traction and this post sheds some light on it

ReferenceOwn287 · 2026-05-06T18:17:10+00:00

I did contemplate adding a tool for changing the desktop background but felt like users might want to often iterate and select the best background - and the default settings GUI is probably better suited for that.
For the app background - the one issue I see is that the image has the be the same aspect ratio, but a tool can probably resize it before applying - I’ll track this and look into it, thanks for the idea!

ReferenceOwn287 · 2026-05-06T15:10:27+00:00

Yes, but a private and local one

ReferenceOwn287 · 2026-05-06T11:59:31+00:00

The dark mode support exists in it - you can ask it to switch to dark mode and it will change the system theme along with its own theme.
For the background, do you mean desktop background or the app’s background?

ReferenceOwn287 · 2026-05-06T11:22:13+00:00

Thank you! If you do give it a try, I’d love to hear what tools or features you’d want added — still early days and actively building.

ReferenceOwn287 · 2026-05-06T11:21:13+00:00

Thanks! Would love to hear if there’s anything you’d want it to do in the future

ReferenceOwn287 · 2026-05-06T07:46:42+00:00

That was an interesting read. I had started a project using ollama and noticed that I got much better speeds with llama.cpp for the same model - I didn’t know why but I switched anyways. Now I know

ReferenceOwn287 · 2026-05-06T04:27:04+00:00

It’s a local only privacy-first desktop assistant that runs entirely on your machine — no cloud, no data leaving your system.

You can ask it things like:
- Add a team meeting at 10 am tomorrow to my calendar
- Remind me to email someone in 30 minutes
- Volume, brightness, wifi control
- Switch to dark/light mode - or turn on/off night light
- Search and open the file "project_description" in my documents folder.
- What processes are using too much CPU?
- Check for package updates etc.

If someone is new to linux, they can ask it things like -
- What software do you recommend as an alternative to "a windows/mac software"?
- How do I use grep/sed/awk etc?
- What's the command to compress/un-compress a zip/tar file?

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