Freaction / Aquilum
Fast local-first Markdown knowledge base for Windows with live preview, search, graph, Dataview, book reader, and MCP
Why this job: says: knowledge base; topics: knowledge-base
What it does
- Native editor with live Markdown preview and document outline.
- Reorderable tabs, restored workspace sessions, and back and forward navigation.
- A file tree for creating folders, renaming, moving, duplicating, and safely deleting notes.
- YAML frontmatter presented as editable fields, plus quick insertion of a metadata starter block.
- Searchable templates that can be applied to the open note or used for a new one, with date and time placeholders and starter note and book templates.
Get started
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Freaction/Aquilum/main/scripts/install.sh | bash You need: Windows 10 or Windows 11, 64-bit.; macOS 12 or later on Apple Silicon (arm64) or Intel (x86_64).; Ubuntu 22.04 or later, x86_64, with the GStreamer 1.0 libraries (used for video; present on most desktop installs).
- Maintenance
- Active
- Last commit yesterday
- Stars
- 281
- +5 this week
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
- Share-alike, even hosted
- Downloads for
- 3 systems
- Mac, Windows, Linux
- Latest version
- v0.3.28
- Released yesterday
- Built with
- Rust
- 100% of the code
Is it looked after?
- Contributors
- 2
- Last 90 days
- Issues
- 59% closed
- 19 still open
- Pull requests
- 2 merged
- 5 waiting
- Releases
- 39
- 30+ in the last year
- No contributing guide
- No security policy
- No code of conduct
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More: download files, languages, topics and project record
Download files, v0.3.28
- Mac2 files, 5 downloads
- Windows1 file, 51 downloads
- Linux3 files, 26 downloads
Languages
- Rust 100%
- Java <1%
Topics
- crdt
- knowledge-base
- local-first
- markdown
- mcp
- notes
- react
- rust
- tauri
- aquilum
Project record
- JobRAG and search
- StatusListed
- Commits120
- Forks16
- Watching4
- Stars in 28 days+78
- CreatedJul 30, 2026
- First seen by usNov 7, 2026
- CheckedNov 9, 2026