Open-source semantic search over your local notes via CLI
Details
- External ID
- 46865976
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Open-source semantic search over your local notes via CLI
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Feb. 3, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 9
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4865229110512129
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Introducing Nia Vault, a CLI that lets you query your local markdown/text files using natural language.What it does:Semantic search over local folders and notes Works across multiple synced directories RAG-style answers with citations from your own filesHow it works:Calls `POST /search/query` with `local_folders` Uses `search_mode: sources` to return answers + file referencesExample:vault ask "What are my notes about project planning?"OSS: https://github.com/chenxin-yan/nia-vault
Enrichment
- Theme
- markdown editors and writing tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- semantic search over local notes
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a CLI tool that parses local markdown files, chunks them, and sends queries to an embedding API or standard vector database.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Nia (API and MCP layer for agent context), QMD
Concerns raised: Unclear API key purpose/functionality
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 53 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #28 of 54 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 81 days after the earliest competitor.
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- MDDock · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Konuq Hub · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Flotnote · ph · 2026-09-29 · 74 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Omni · hn · 2026-06-05 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Gote · hn · 2026-09-07 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.36
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.