Very cool. Powerful tool. Wish I'd consolidated my knowledge base in one place decades ago. What I need is a tool that will do that consolidation from dozens of different formats going back decades and make it all accessible.
I just use msty. It lets me point to an obsidian repo, turn it into a knowledgebase and add it to chats in a friendly chat interface and do the same thing. The big difference is that it lets me use any model, it stores its chat histories, lets me bring in internet search results and generally have a lot more control over the whole interaction. For added bonus I run it on a different machine than my daily driver and I have a remote endpoint (that mirrors the openai spec) that can be called and chatted with from any machine and using whatever model is best for the task with no waste of my main machine processing.
Obsidian plugins: - smart connections - obsidian copilot - gemini for obsidian do this all better. Smart connections establish connections between files. 🙌
I similarly don’t love the UI experience of most of the Obsidian interfaces. I do think text generator isn’t too bad but it struggles to be configurable enough. Plus I can’t understand why all my embeddings change every time I bump the version of smart connections. I get thrown around to different models every time I update it seems. Haven’t really experimented with paid but ultimately find gpts a bit clunky to work with too
@@StableDiscussionsmart connections is in fact bad software. It’s very unclear how to use it properly. I have something that is a very simple ‘highlight and right click to submit as a prompt’ - i forget what’s it’s called. Much easier to understand. Would love something that adds tags automatically.
Copilot plugin is actually op. But since youre using obsidian through an IDE, you can do better by running it in VScode and using Cline as the LLM agent.
0:55 you can store these things in external services but Obsidian makes it really easy to pull these things in. For example I use Omnivore for article highlights and the official plugin to sync these automatically with Obsidian where I can reference them.
I'm not into Coding too much, just browsing various use cases and informative videos, so this might be an obvious question: Does Cursor let you use a local model or more RAG friendly model for its QA section (using 3.5 sonnet in the vid). Seems weird that the model doesn't have access to your "codebase" as a RAG database, especially if it's just text. Would be nice to be able to query the model and the database simultaneously without having to select one option or the other.
Try this simple question "give me a recap of last week" with this approach. It doesn't know the current time so it has no idea when "last week" is, let alone knowing how to retrieve things from last week. Copilot for Obsidian can do that though. Because it became agentic since its recent update.
@@NierAutomata2B Thanks for the update on the latest capabilities of the Copilot plug in. I’ll check that out. My workaround for this as of late has been to pull the note files from the week into Notebooklm as it does a splendid job. If you want a good laugh combined with an insight or two listen to the deep dive podcast generated from your notes. I’m still laughing from the one I listened to yesterday about my notes from last week. 🤣🤣🤣
@@DaleSimpson notebookLM is indeed pretty nice. there are too many tools right now and each excel at some things. I’m personally a fan of Copilot for obsidian because I have alpha access. Hopefully it will incorporate the best features in one plugin so i can stay in obsidian for all my PKM needs.
Great content in your vid Ben. I too use Obsidian with lots of plug-ins. Itchin' to integrate Cursor as yo did. Hey what app, setting, or other tool are you using when using your pointer to move and fade out red trails as you make points on your slides. I'd like to do the same. Thanks!
Could obsidian be used as a source of knowledge when we are developing? I mainly do Android, and the LLMs knowledge is too outdated, and usually fails on the same points. I’d that knowledge could be injected somehow it would be awesome. I added the Android developers site as a source, but that site is not prepared to be scraped properly, and hardly ever finds anything useful. Thanks for the video! I also use obsidian, and this will be really helpful.
One thing I forgot to note is that you can actually open a workspace where you have both your notes available and the code you’re working on. By having both folders available, you can reference both in a single chat experience
Very cool. Powerful tool. Wish I'd consolidated my knowledge base in one place decades ago. What I need is a tool that will do that consolidation from dozens of different formats going back decades and make it all accessible.
I just use msty. It lets me point to an obsidian repo, turn it into a knowledgebase and add it to chats in a friendly chat interface and do the same thing. The big difference is that it lets me use any model, it stores its chat histories, lets me bring in internet search results and generally have a lot more control over the whole interaction. For added bonus I run it on a different machine than my daily driver and I have a remote endpoint (that mirrors the openai spec) that can be called and chatted with from any machine and using whatever model is best for the task with no waste of my main machine processing.
Obsidian plugins:
- smart connections
- obsidian copilot
- gemini for obsidian
do this all better.
Smart connections establish connections between files. 🙌
Smart connections is a paid feature and the UI is bad. It is hard to enable and uninstall.
I similarly don’t love the UI experience of most of the Obsidian interfaces. I do think text generator isn’t too bad but it struggles to be configurable enough.
Plus I can’t understand why all my embeddings change every time I bump the version of smart connections. I get thrown around to different models every time I update it seems. Haven’t really experimented with paid but ultimately find gpts a bit clunky to work with too
@@StableDiscussionsmart connections is in fact bad software. It’s very unclear how to use it properly. I have something that is a very simple ‘highlight and right click to submit as a prompt’ - i forget what’s it’s called. Much easier to understand.
Would love something that adds tags automatically.
Copilot plugin is actually op. But since youre using obsidian through an IDE, you can do better by running it in VScode and using Cline as the LLM agent.
Thx. I have been wanting to dive into cursor. Now this can be just the nudge since Obsidian is my daily goto.
Intriguing idea. Well done, and thank you for sharing it!
more on your obsidian setup, theme, plugins etc
0:55 you can store these things in external services but Obsidian makes it really easy to pull these things in. For example I use Omnivore for article highlights and the official plugin to sync these automatically with Obsidian where I can reference them.
Totally! I use Matter and Booksidian and Kindle Highlights similarly
IMHO this should be a built in feature by Obsidian
I'm not into Coding too much, just browsing various use cases and informative videos, so this might be an obvious question:
Does Cursor let you use a local model or more RAG friendly model for its QA section (using 3.5 sonnet in the vid). Seems weird that the model doesn't have access to your "codebase" as a RAG database, especially if it's just text. Would be nice to be able to query the model and the database simultaneously without having to select one option or the other.
Try this simple question "give me a recap of last week" with this approach. It doesn't know the current time so it has no idea when "last week" is, let alone knowing how to retrieve things from last week. Copilot for Obsidian can do that though. Because it became agentic since its recent update.
@@NierAutomata2B Thanks for the update on the latest capabilities of the Copilot plug in. I’ll check that out. My workaround for this as of late has been to pull the note files from the week into Notebooklm as it does a splendid job. If you want a good laugh combined with an insight or two listen to the deep dive podcast generated from your notes. I’m still laughing from the one I listened to yesterday about my notes from last week. 🤣🤣🤣
@@DaleSimpson notebookLM is indeed pretty nice. there are too many tools right now and each excel at some things. I’m personally a fan of Copilot for obsidian because I have alpha access. Hopefully it will incorporate the best features in one plugin so i can stay in obsidian for all my PKM needs.
Great content in your vid Ben. I too use Obsidian with lots of plug-ins. Itchin' to integrate Cursor as yo did. Hey what app, setting, or other tool are you using when using your pointer to move and fade out red trails as you make points on your slides. I'd like to do the same. Thanks!
Thanks! I’m actually using Excalidraw plus there using presentation mode with the content inside a slide
Could obsidian be used as a source of knowledge when we are developing? I mainly do Android, and the LLMs knowledge is too outdated, and usually fails on the same points. I’d that knowledge could be injected somehow it would be awesome. I added the Android developers site as a source, but that site is not prepared to be scraped properly, and hardly ever finds anything useful. Thanks for the video! I also use obsidian, and this will be really helpful.
One thing I forgot to note is that you can actually open a workspace where you have both your notes available and the code you’re working on. By having both folders available, you can reference both in a single chat experience
@@StableDiscussiondidn’t know that. I’m pretty new to VsCode/Cursor. That’s amazing, thanks!
is there something for notion
There is another LLM to integrate on an easy UI just to simplify everything inside Obsidian? Dont like cursor interface
Interesting
Does it have a student discount?
Not yet, but it sounds like they are interested in eventually having one: forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-for-student/148
Why not use Ollama through an Obisidian extension?
A second brain