I love #Obsidian, but I couldn't use it at work (not an approved software). I needed a note-taking tool that stayed true to the Markdown philosophy without the overhead of a full IDE (there are a couple of VSCode plugins out there, see list in comments) or the security/licensing hurdles of unapproved software. So I built it myself, with the help of Claude and Codex. Not saying it's better than Obsidian, it's just what I need and I can use it at work.
👉 https://github.com/mathiasconradt/tektite
(very early 0.1 release, might contain bugs ;)
Tektite is a deliberately lightweight Markdown knowledge base app for macOS and Linux. It keeps the core workflow simple: open a local folder, write Markdown notes, preview them live, and see how they connect in the graph.
There is no login, cloud sync service, telemetry, remote storage, account system, or plugin system. Your vault is just a folder on disk, and if you want sync, plain Git works nicely.
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