kenforthewin/atomic

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1928 stars · 140 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Atomic is a self-hosted, local-first personal knowledge base that turns markdown notes into a semantically-connected, AI-augmented knowledge graph. It automatically chunks, embeds, tags, and links notes, and offers semantic search, wiki synthesis, agentic RAG chat, a spatial canvas, and MCP integration, runnable as a desktop app, self-hosted server, or hosted cloud.

Use cases

• organize my markdown notes into a knowledge graph
• search my notes by meaning instead of keywords
• chat with my notes and get citations
• auto-generate wiki articles from my notes
• visualize how my ideas connect on a canvas
• automatically tag notes as I save them
• clip web pages and RSS articles into my knowledge base
• connect my notes to Claude or Cursor via MCP

When to choose

• you want a self-hosted, local-first alternative to Notion/Obsidian-style tools with AI features
• you want semantic search and RAG chat over your own notes on your own hardware
• you prefer markdown-based, exportable data with no vendor lock-in
• you want scheduled research reports and auto-tagging over a personal corpus

When to avoid

• you need a mature, battle-tested tool with a large plugin ecosystem
• you don't want to run an LLM/embedding provider or pay for AI usage
• you need real-time multi-user collaborative editing
• you only need simple plain-text notes without AI features

Facets

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rag search-engine nlp machine-learning mcp chatbot data-visualization web-scraping artificial-intelligence developer-tools self-hosted self-hosted cross-platform browser-extension rust personal-knowledge-base knowledge-graph semantic-search wiki-synthesis auto-tagging spatial-canvas local-first markdown-notes rss-ingestion agentic-chat knowledge-base retrieval-augmented-generation natural-language-processing docker desktop web-server ios

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