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		michaelmior on Feb 15, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Reor – An AI note-taking app that runs mo... Why does any app have to "own" the database? I don't see this as being a restriction any more than it is with Markdown. Arguably even less so with a database since you have access to transactions.

kepano on Feb 15, 2024 [–]

If you made a new app what is "the" database you would write to? There isn't an existing standard for this aside from the file system.

michaelmior on Feb 16, 2024 | [–]

That's a fair point in the sense that you're always guaranteed to have some file system already :)

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