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I’m new to Obsidian and want to use it as a personal knowledge base for my ideas and useful conversations.
I mainly use ChatGPT Voice Mode and would like to save important insights in Obsidian, so I can find them later and connect related ideas.
I’m not a programmer, so I’m looking for a simple setup that doesn’t require too much technical knowledge or extra costs.
What’s the easiest way to get started? Does anyone here use Obsidian alongside ChatGPT and have any beginner-friendly tips?
Thanks for your help!
Things I have tried
Welcome! You don’t need any plugins or code for this. A simple setup that works well:
- Make one folder, for example
AI insights.
- After a voice conversation, open that chat in the ChatGPT app and ask something like: “Summarize the useful insights from this conversation as Markdown, with a short title and bullet points.” Copy the answer and paste it into a new note in that folder. The Markdown formatting carries over.
- At the end of the note, add a line like
Related: [[...]] and link one or two existing notes it connects to (typing [[ shows suggestions). Those links, plus the Backlinks pane, are what let you connect ideas later. The Graph view shows them too.
- Optionally add a tag such as
#idea so you can filter for those notes in search.
Search across all notes (Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+F) covers the full text, so you don’t need a perfect folder structure up front. Start with one folder and a few links, and add structure only when you feel you need it.
If you ever want the full transcripts, ChatGPT’s settings have a data export that emails you all your conversations, but for a knowledge base the short summaries are usually more useful than raw transcripts.