Obsidian Local LLM Helper
Private AI chat & semantic search for Obsidian notes
What it does
Bring AI directly into your Obsidian notes while keeping data private. Chat with AI, semantically search your vault, and transform text with custom commands. Works with Ollama, OpenAI, LM Studio, and any OpenAI-compatible provider. Features RAG for chatting with notes, smart chunking, 8 built-in personas, web search, and customizable prompts. Process locally or with your chosen provider—you stay in control.
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This lets you talk to local LLMs in Apple Notes. I saw Obsidian Ollama (https://github.com/hinterdupfinger/obsidian-ollama) and thought it was handy, but I'm too lazy to migrate away from the Apple ecosystem, so I quickly hacked this together. I tend to use Notes as a scratchpad for prompts, so it's nice to do some quick inference without leaving the app. Notes doesn't really support plugins so I'm using the macOS accessibility API for reading selections and then stream responses using the clipboard (not ideal but it works).
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Reor is an open-source AI note-taking app that runs models locally. The four main things to know are: 1. Notes are connected automatically with vector search. You can do semantic search + related notes are automatically connected. 2. You can do RAG Q&A on your notes using the local LLM of your choice. 3. Embedding model, LLM, vector db and files are all run or stored locally. 4. Point it to a directory of markdown files (like an Obsidian vault) and it works seamlessly alongside Obsidian. Under the hood, Reor uses Llama.cpp (node-llama-cpp integration), Transformers.js and Lancedb to power…
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