Tolaria: a files-first Markdown app for Mac designed for Git workflows and AI agents

Tolaria Tolaria is a free, open-source desktop app for macOS and Linux built by Luca Rossi, the author of the Refactoring newsletter. Rossi created Tolaria to manage his own collection of 10,000+ notes. That origin story matters. The feature set feels like it grew out of solving real problems for a real workflow; not something assembled by a product manager or stitched together from an AI roadmap. At its core, Tolaria is a very 2026-style Markdown editor; modern, opinionated, and not trying to clone Notion or compete head-on with Obsidian. The sweet-spot user is someone who: Already lives in Markdown and Git Is experimenting with tools like Claude Code or other AI agents in their daily workflow Wants their knowledge base to be part of their AI context instead of isolated from it Treats data portability as a non-negotiable requirement Tolaria’s Core Principles These are deliberate design choices from the developer. Files-first.Notes are plain .md files on disk. No proprietary database;…