Show HN: Rowboat — Open-Source, Local-First Alternative to Claude Cowork With a Knowledge Graph

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Rowboat (190 points, 71 comments on HN) is a free, local-first alternative to Claude Cowork that indexes email, meetings, Slack, and assistant conversations into an Obsidian-style backlinked knowledge graph stored as local Markdown, then runs background agents on events (new email, schedule) that can browse, search, and write code via Claude Code or Codex. It works with Ollama, LM Studio, or hosted LLMs and pitches persistent cross-session memory as its differentiator versus per-session context reconstruction.