Files.md
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
6recommend
1warn against
May 18, 2026first mention
Oct 21, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“it forked https://files.md and set it up on my home server”
“Glad I read about this!”
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“Will look to support this as well.”
“as the product looks and feels stellar”
“It appeals to me as a minimalistic version of the Bear[1] notes app.”
Caveats and dissent
“that's still the case according to SSL Labs”
Often compared with
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“Native markdown notes editor for Windows, written in Rust.”
“I added a table with all possible setup options”
“For the most part I use the project from my Telegram bot.”
“Because I use the project on daily basis.”
Threads where it came up
- Show HN: Files.md – open-source alternative to Obsidian 13 mentions
- SaaS Is Dead 1 mention
Also written as files.md. Data: files-md.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 10
“it forked https://files.md and set it up on my home server”
“Would Files.md offer a better sync alternative?”
“that's still the case according to SSL Labs”
“What is this providing over similarly Markdown based open source note taking applications like Joplin?”
“Glad I read about this!”
“Will look to support this as well.”
“as the product looks and feels stellar”
“It appeals to me as a minimalistic version of the Bear[1] notes app.”
“You can just clone and use offline.”
“what I found out was entirely different and much more interesting.”