
Folio Dark Muse
A local-first writing IDE for books
What it does
Folio is a desktop writing IDE for novelists and solo book writers. Organize parts and Markdown chapters, track draft/revised/final status, keep a codex for characters and lore, scan TODOs, restore snapshots, and export MD, TXT, DOCX, or EPUB. Muse adds manuscript-aware AI with local Gemma support, so your book stays on your disk.
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- M2Muse 2.0 with local-first sync2022 · museapp.com · ▲178
Hey HN, I want to share with you something I and my four colleagues have been working on for the last several years. It’s a whiteboarding and notes tool called Muse[1]. We just released a 2.0 version which includes local-first sync. A little backstory: I’m one of the authors of the 2019 essay Local-first software[2]. (Past HN discussions[3][4].) The thesis is to reclaim some of the ownership over our data that we’ve lost in the transition from filesystems to cloud/SaaS. So I’m excited to bring CRDT technology “out of the lab” and into a commercial product as a chance to prove the value…

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Hey HN, Henry here from Cactus. We open-sourced Needle, a 26M parameter function-calling (tool use) model. It runs at 6000 tok/s prefill and 1200 tok/s decode on consumer devices. We were always frustrated by the little effort made towards building agentic models that run on budget phones, so we conducted investigations that led to an observation: agentic experiences are built upon tool calling, and massive models are overkill for it. Tool calling is fundamentally retrieval-and-assembly (match query to tool name, extract argument values, emit JSON), not reasoning. Cross-attention…
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