# refactoringhq/tolaria

> Desktop and mobile app for managing markdown knowledge bases: notes are plain files in a git repository, work offline and require no accounts.

- Magnitude: 3.3 out of 10 — Breakout
- Stars: 20,345 total · +2 stars measured 2026-10-26, 11:33–13:14 UTC, ≈ 16 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Productivity & self-hosted · Language: TypeScript · License: AGPL-3.0 · Created: 2026-02-14 · Last push: 2026-10-26
- GitHub: https://github.com/refactoringhq/tolaria · Homepage: https://tolaria.md · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/refactoringhq/tolaria

## Useful for

- Run a personal second brain of thousands of notes with git version history
- Store company docs as context for AI agents
- Sync notes between desktop and iPhone through a single git repository

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-26 (UTC), 11:33–13:14: 20343 → 20345 stars (+2). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +16 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Over the last two days the pace is 3.1× that of the previous week and a half.
- Elevated gains were measured on the last 2 completed UTC days in a row. Continued growth is not guaranteed.
- GitHub Trending TypeScript today: #11, +61 stars.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 1,397
- Issues and pull requests: 1,209
- Watchers: 51
- Average over the last week: 38 per day
- Usual pace: 12 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 1
- Latest release: alpha-v2026.10.27-alpha.0005 (2026-10-26)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-27 … 2026-10-26: 13, 15, 15, 11, 8, 6, 6, 1, 9, 16, 33, 22, 13, 13, 23, 8, 12, 16, 12, 9, 9, 8, 13, 11, 21, 30, 8, 112, 68, 2

## Spotted in now

- GitHub Trending TypeScript today: #11, +61 stars

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-26 13:24 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.