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mini cli search engine for your docs, knowledge bases, meeting notes, whatever. Tracking current sota approaches while being all local

16 mentions on Hacker News by 15 people: 5 stories, 11 comments · first 2026-01-15 · latest 2026-10-27

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  1. …for a good summarization, I just worry that these tiny models aren't really GOOD summarizers. [0] https://github.com/tobi/qmd
    comment by mapontosevenths · 2026-10-27 · in Survival LLM: AI assistant and emergency library that runs on your own computer
  2. I use qmd for that on over 20 years of journaling and saved quotes, works great https://github.com/tobi/qmd
    comment by kandros · 2026-08-09 · in Ask HN: What you using local models for?
  3. …My agents use both depending on what type of search they are doing, and both provide good results. https://github.com/tobi/qmd
    comment by bachittle · 2026-06-09 · in Is grep all you need? How agent harnesses reshape agentic search
  4. We need more tools like QMD that beautifully download and use local models under the hood https://github.com/tobi/qmd
    comment by kandros · 2026-05-11 · in Local AI needs to be the norm
  5. …new data comes in. Essentially a cross-referenced set of markdown files forming a knowledge base: https://github.com/tobi/qmd
    comment by cloudking · 2026-04-15 · in Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?
  6. …://unsloth.ai/docs/get-started/fine-tuning-llms-guide . I'm currently experimenting with Tobi's QMD ( https://github.com/tobi/qmd ) to see how it performances with local models only on my Obsidian Vault.
    comment by terminalkeys · 2026-04-08 · in Your File System Is Already A Graph Database
  7. Have you looked at qmd by any chance? Thoughts on that for sqlite vs qmd in this case? https://github.com/tobi/qmd
    comment by iamspoilt · 2026-03-30 · in Improving personal tax filing with Claude CLI and Obsidian
  8. closest thing I've seen is https://github.com/tobi/qmd , though it requires installing 3 local embedding models (300MB, 640MB, 1.1GB).
    comment by tk90 · 2026-03-27 · in From zero to a RAG system: successes and failures
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    Show HN: ClawMem – Open-source agent memory with SOTA local GPU retrieval
    story by yoloshii · 2026-03-22 · 0 comments
  10. …into macOS. Yet another missed opportunity. How does this compare to qmd [1] by Tobi Lutke? [1] https://github.com/tobi/qmd
    comment by atonse · 2026-02-17 · in Sub-Millisecond RAG on Apple Silicon. No Server. No API. One File
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    Show HN: Ghost – Session memory for Claude Code (local, qmd, Git-integrated)
    story by notkurt · 2026-02-13 · 1 comment
  12. How does this compare with QMD ( https://github.com/tobi/qmd )?
    comment by jy-tan · 2026-02-03 · in Show HN: Open-source semantic search over your local notes via CLI
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    QMD – Quick Markdown Search
    story by ElasticBottle · 2026-01-25 · 0 comments
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    QMD - Quick Markdown Search
    story by saikatsg · 2026-01-20 · 7 comments
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    QMD – Quick Markdown Search
    story by kenrose · 2026-01-19 · 1 comment
  16. Most of my complex documents are, luckily, Markdown files. I can recommend https://github.com/tobi/qmd/ . It’s a simple CLI tool for searching in these kinds of files. My previous workflow was based on fzf, but this tool gives better…
    comment by beklein · 2026-01-15 · in Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?