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The team second brain
On real-time collaboration, local-first markdown, open source, and giving your AI a second brain.
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Multi-agent shared memory breaks on the write, not the read
Shared memory for several AI agents: the three write shapes, why rewrites lose updates, and how to keep the text an overwrite replaced.
Oct 13, 2026 · 9 min readRaycast asks before it writes to your notes, not before it reads them
Raycast auto-approves read-only MCP tools, so the server decides which calls skip the prompt. The setup, the nine read-only tools, and what consent grants.
Oct 13, 2026 · 9 min readObsidian for teams: what you get, what it costs, and what it can't do yet
Obsidian for teams is a help section, not a product: a licence, Sync shared vaults, Publish. What each gives a team, the cost for 2 to 20 people, the gaps.
Oct 13, 2026 · 6 min readObsidian collaboration plugins, compared on whose server carries your edits
Relay, Peerdraft, EVC Team Relay, Live Share, Vault Rooms, Synqra, Mood Collab and DoMD compared: hosting, price, permissions and encryption.
Oct 13, 2026 · 5 min readAn MCP second brain is only as good as where its notes live
One store of notes, any AI client over MCP. Obsidian plus a server, Basic Memory, Hjarni, Notion MCP and Baalda, compared on files, safe writes and team access.
Oct 13, 2026 · 5 min readA collaborative markdown editor usually means a database that accepts markdown
HedgeDoc, Etherpad, Docmost, Outline, AFFiNE, SilverBullet, Joplin and Baalda, sorted by whether your text stays plain .md files or rows in a database.
Oct 13, 2026 · 4 min readFree Notion alternatives for teams, and the limit each one hits first
Notion Free caps a shared workspace at 1,000 blocks. AFFiNE, Docmost, Outline, AppFlowy, Anytype, Obsidian and Baalda: what stays free once a team writes.
Oct 13, 2026 · 4 min readWiki software is bought for the archive and compared on the editor
Ten wiki tools sorted by what the reader who joined later gets: Confluence, Notion, Guru, Outline, BookStack, Wiki.js, DokuWiki, MediaWiki, XWiki, Baalda.
Oct 13, 2026 · 9 min readHow to build a second brain that outlives the person who built it
The CODE method in Tiago Forte's own words, then the assumption under all four steps: it is built for one reader. What to change when a team shares it.
Oct 13, 2026 · 10 min readLibreChat over MCP: self-host the chat, then self-host what it writes
LibreChat is MIT-licensed and self-hosted, but its conversations stay in MongoDB. Connect it to a Baalda vault over MCP so the output lands in markdown.
Oct 12, 2026 · 8 min readn8n can write into the same markdown files your team is editing
n8n's MCP Client Tool node speaks HTTP Streamable. Baalda serves MCP at POST /api/mcp, so an n8n agent can read and write your team's markdown notes.
Oct 12, 2026 · 8 min readOwning the server is the easy half of self-hosted shared notes
Self-hosting a notes app gets you a server, not a second person. What "shared" means in Joplin, Memos, Outline, Docs and Notesnook, and what each one costs.
Oct 12, 2026 · 9 min readStart your team’s brain
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