kowalski

kowalski

kowalski is an AI-powered PKMS for Android based on kowalski-core.

Showcase

Here a video showcasing the functionalities

Setup

The app backend is handled by kowalski-core running in server mode on Termux, hence we need to install it first:

• Download and install latest release
• Install termux
• Install git and go in termux with pkg install git golang
• Git clone kowalski-core on Termux
• Edit the makefile and set INSTALL_PATH to /data/data/com.termux/files
• Run make all
• Run ko serve

Finally you can launch kowalski

Remarks

• Notes are automatically saved upon going back to the main screen
• Notes need to be saved before one can use AI on them
• In order to save battery (and since I couldn't make it work) there is no automatic refresh on the notes screen. So every time you add a note you must hit the refresh button to see it

Feature matrix

	kowalski	Keep	Obsidian	Notion	Anytype	Logseq	gitJournal	MyMind	Fabric
Free	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Open source	✅					✅	✅
Simple	✅	✅					✅
Local	✅					✅	✅
Plain markdown	✅		✅				✅
AI capable	✅		✅*	✅		✅*		✅	✅
Cross platform	✅*	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Hackable	✅		✅

*: With plugins

License

kowalski is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Zero Universal.