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Reor is a private AI personal knowledge management tool. Think of it as a notes program on steroids. Each note is saved as a Markdown file to a “vault” directory on your machine.
Installation
We tested Reor with the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Manjaro distributions. Manjaro is an Arch-based distro.
There’s an AppImage available which makes installation straightforward whatever Linux distribution you use. AppImage is a universal software format for distributing portable software on Linux without needing superuser permissions to install the application. AppImage doesn’t really install software. It’s a compressed image with all the dependencies and libraries needed to run the desired software.
We’ll use wget to download the AppImage.
$ wget https://github.com/reorproject/reor/releases/download/v0.2.21/Reor_0.2.21.AppImage
As the project is providing regular new releases, you’ll need to use the current version number in the line above.
Make the file executable with the command:
$ chmod u+x Reor_0.2.21.AppImage
Alternatively, you can make your own AppImage. Follow these commands:
You’ll need npm and nodejs on your system. In Ubuntu, they are installed with the command:
$ sudo apt install npm nodejs
Then clone the project’s GitHub repository:
$ git clone https://github.com/reorproject/reor.git
Change into the newly created directory:
$ cd reor
Install the program’s dependencies with the command:
$ npm install
Build the program:
$ npm run build
The AppImage is stored at ~/reor/release/0.2.21
Trying to run the AppImage on Ubuntu promoted an error “The SUID sandbox helper binary was found, but is not configured correctly”. The simplest solution is to run the app with the --no sandbox argument.
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This may be an issue with our test machine. We didn’t experience this issue testing the software under Manjaro.
Reor is cross-platform software. Besides Linux, the software runs on macOS and Windows.
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Page 1 – Introduction and Installation
Page 2 – In Operation
Page 3 – Summary