Recently I’ve been using Cursor AI to work with my vault, and found it really helpful for my workflow. It’s been great for overcoming writer’s block, and creating new notes based on existing templates.
So, I thought it’d be great to have a similar experience directly in Obsidian.
“Obsidian Smart Composer” is a plugin that helps your writing by referencing vault content and editing support.
Key features:
Contextual Chat: Tag specific files as context
Apply Edit: AI-suggested edits and apply them directly to your text
It’s currently in beta, available through the BRAT plugin. Community plugin support is on progress.
Upcoming Features:
Context Selection: Automatically references relevant files using RAG
Web Search: Provide website links to AI as context
If you want to reference all notes of your vault, you should run the ‘Vault Search’ which is just Shift + Enter in the same chat input.
This is designed to distinguish whether the question is within the whole vault, or within the specific note context (whch you can include by tagging with @).
Do you not think that having AI autocomplete your notes kinda defeats the point of making notes? They’re supposed to be your words, forming your own words from your own head is the main value of writing right?
Agree at all. I actually don’t use AI much when writing my original thoughts. But find it super helpful when searching notes with only semantic keywords (you know its native search sucks), or for open-ended ideation.
Plus, I also use Obsidian sync for Work-related documentation, and it’s basically replaced my whole ChatGPT use cases there.
