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Personal-knowledge-management projects on GitHub

Tools for capturing, linking, and resurfacing personal knowledge.

As of , the most-starred Personal-knowledge-management projects on GitHub are memos (63.9K stars), siyuan (46.8K stars) and logseq (45.3K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 27 Personal-knowledge-management repositories with 313.3K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was pickoo-your-favorites, with +82 stars in a day.

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+82

pickoo-your-favorites

KristenPan/pickoo-your-favorites · ★ 834

Pickoo! is a local-first AI favorites workbench where a connected agent automatically ingests links you paste or share (from Xiaohongshu, Douyin, Bilibili, WeChat, Xiaoyuzhou podcasts, web pages, NetEase Music) and files them into editable Markdown with a preserved evidence package.

+33

memos

usememos/memos · ★ 63.9K

Memos is an open-source, self-hosted app for capturing short-form notes—daily notes, links, work logs, and snippets—into a chronological Markdown timeline you can revisit by search, tag, or date.

+29

claude-obsidian

AgriciDaniel/claude-obsidian · ★ 15.6K

claude-obsidian is a local-first knowledge system that pairs Claude Code (or any compatible Agent Skills host) with Obsidian. It turns any source you drop in into linked, source-cited Markdown pages and answers questions grounded in the evidence already in your vault.

+21

gbrain

garrytan/gbrain · ★ 30.9K

GBrain is a memory-and-knowledge layer for AI coding agents: instead of raw search hits it returns synthesized, well-cited answers across your pages, people, companies and ideas, plus a self-wiring knowledge graph and an explicit note on what it doesn't know yet. Garry Tan (YC's CEO) built it to run his own OpenClaw and Hermes agents.

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27 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · usememos/memos

    memos

    Memos is an open-source, self-hosted app for capturing short-form notes—daily notes, links, work logs, and snippets—into a chronological Markdown timeline you can revisit by search, tag, or date.

    63.9K
  2. #2 · siyuan-note/siyuan

    siyuan

    SiYuan is an open-source, privacy-first, self-hosted knowledge workspace that combines block-level note-taking with AI agent collaboration, letting humans and AI agents work on the same knowledge base together.

    46.8K
  3. #3 · logseq/logseq

    logseq

    Logseq is a privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management and collaboration, built around a graph of linked notes written in local Markdown or Org-mode files.

    45.3K
  1. 4

    gbrain

    30.9Kgarrytan/gbrain · TypeScript

    GBrain is a memory-and-knowledge layer for AI coding agents: instead of raw search hits it returns synthesized, well-cited answers across your pages, people, companies and ideas, plus a self-wiring knowledge graph and an explicit note on what it doesn't know yet. Garry Tan (YC's CEO) built it to run his own OpenClaw and Hermes agents.

  2. 5

    obsidian-releases

    22.3Kobsidianmd/obsidian-releases

    This is the official Obsidian releases repo: it hosts public releases of the app plus the community plugins and themes directories that power the in-app plugin and theme browser.

  3. 6

    tolaria

    20.1Krefactoringhq/tolaria · TypeScript

    Tolaria is a desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux that manages markdown knowledge bases — personal second brains, company docs, or AI assistant memory — stored as plain files in a git repo.

  4. 7

    claude-obsidian

    15.6KAgriciDaniel/claude-obsidian · Python

    claude-obsidian is a local-first knowledge system that pairs Claude Code (or any compatible Agent Skills host) with Obsidian. It turns any source you drop in into linked, source-cited Markdown pages and answers questions grounded in the evidence already in your vault.

  5. 8

    quartz

    13.4Kjackyzha0/quartz · TypeScript

    Quartz is a static-site generator that turns Markdown notes into a fully functional website, designed especially for publishing digital gardens and interconnected notes.

  6. 9

    note-gen

    12.9Kcodexu/note-gen · TypeScript

    NoteGen is a local-first Markdown note app that lets you quickly capture scattered fragments like text, voice recordings, screenshots, links, or files, then use AI later to organize them into structured notes.

  7. 10

    leanote

    11.7Kleanote/leanote · JavaScript

    Leanote is an open-source, self-hosted note-taking and knowledge management app built as an alternative to Evernote, with a rich-text editor and a real-time markdown editor.

  8. 11

    mycontext

    5KopenTrinity/mycontext · TypeScript

    MyContext is a local-first desktop app that builds a persistent, evolving personal context layer from your messages, documents, meetings and other work signals, and makes that context usable by AI agents, local LLMs, and a 'digital self' that can draft replies in your style.

  9. 12

    obsidian-second-brain

    4.8Keugeniughelbur/obsidian-second-brain · Python

    It's a skill/plugin that gives Claude Code and other CLI coding agents (Codex, Gemini, Grok Bot, and more) persistent, self-rewriting memory stored as plain markdown notes in your Obsidian vault, so you stop re-explaining your projects, decisions, and people every session.

  10. 13

    OB1

    4.7KNateBJones-Projects/OB1 · TypeScript

    Open Brain (OB1) is an infrastructure layer that gives every AI tool you use — Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code, and whatever ships next — shared, persistent access to the same memory of you, through one database and one AI gateway.

  11. 14

    My-Brain-Is-Full-Crew

    3.9Kgnekt/My-Brain-Is-Full-Crew · Shell

    A crew of 8+ AI agents and 14 specialized skills that manages your Obsidian vault through chat: capturing notes, triaging your inbox, searching, transcribing meetings, and handling email and calendar, in whatever language you write.

  12. 15

    arscontexta

    3.5Kagenticnotetaking/arscontexta · Shell

    Ars Contexta is a Claude Code plugin that generates a personalized knowledge system (a 'second brain') from a conversation about how you think and work, producing markdown files, folder structure, skills, and automation tailored to your domain.

  13. 16

    wechat-intelligence-hub

    2.7KRion-Wu-tech/wechat-intelligence-hub · Python

    It is a local-first system that turns your own WeChat chat history into searchable, verifiable personal intelligence: contact history, group topics, pending replies, promises, business opportunities and follow-up leads, delivered as daily briefings or on-demand reports.

  14. 17

    chubbyskills

    1.3Kchubbyguan/chubbyskills · Python

    Chubby Skills is a set of 14 Agent Skills plus a CLI that ingest Chinese social content (Douyin, Bilibili, Xiaohongshu, WeChat public accounts, X, podcasts) and local documents into a personal Markdown knowledge base you can search, cite, and hand off to an AI agent.

  15. 18

    second-brain-os

    1.1Kundefined-ui/second-brain-os · HTML

    A knowledge base an AI agent builds and maintains for you, in plain markdown files you own: what you read, watch and save becomes linked wiki pages you can query. The repo holds the full guide, a starter vault, agent skills and scripts.

  16. 19

    compass

    979AgriciDaniel/compass · JavaScript

    Compass is a complete Obsidian vault template that runs your life as a Life OS: nightly journaling questions, quarterly retreats, planning, habits, tasks, reading, writing, and an AI assistant — all plain Markdown.

  17. 20

    pickoo-your-favorites

    834KristenPan/pickoo-your-favorites · Python

    Pickoo! is a local-first AI favorites workbench where a connected agent automatically ingests links you paste or share (from Xiaohongshu, Douyin, Bilibili, WeChat, Xiaoyuzhou podcasts, web pages, NetEase Music) and files them into editable Markdown with a preserved evidence package.

  18. 21

    greenbubbles

    383bojieli/greenbubbles · Rust

    GreenBubbles is a Mac command-line tool (with an optional app and an agent skill) that reads your own WeChat chat history directly from the database files WeChat already keeps on your Mac, letting you browse, search, back up, or ask a coding agent to turn chosen conversations into cited Markdown notes.

  19. 22

    knoweldge-base

    293rgem227/knoweldge-base · Python

    Knoweldge Base is a self-hosted personal or team knowledge base: you upload documents into nested folders, preview them in the browser, and AI agents can read them through a read-only MCP service. This is the Phase 1 minimum viable version.

  20. 23

    arsumbris

    265arsumbris/arsumbris · Python

    arsumbris is a malleable, agent-native IDE for typed knowledge: a macOS workspace built on a type engine and an extensible agent framework, where you and your AI agent work on the same knowledge together.

  21. 24

    graph-memory-starter

    245Glitch-Cat-Club/graph-memory-starter · Python

    A knowledge-graph memory layer for AI assistants built from three SQLite tables and one recursive query, so your assistant can answer multi-hop questions about your notes before it even starts searching.

  22. 25

    ambient-context

    205dragthelake/ambient-context · Rust

    Ambient Context is a macOS menu bar app that silently records what you work on throughout the day and turns it into plain markdown files your AI assistant can use as context.

  23. 26

    WakeGPT

    165Awaker-OTE/WakeGPT · Rust

    WakeGPT is a local-first desktop app for quickly capturing text, Markdown, links, and images, and letting them grow into durable Markdown notes you can later reuse as context in ChatGPT.

  24. 27

    Life-Compass-Obsidian-CN

    149sunkeke-ai/Life-Compass-Obsidian-CN · JavaScript

    This is an unofficial Simplified Chinese localization of 'Compass', an Obsidian vault system ('Life OS') for managing journaling, goals, habits, tasks, projects, writing, reading and life reviews.

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