I realize it is early days yet, but is there any informed speculation about whether Obsidian be able to use the local on-computer LLMs provided by Apple Intelligence this autumn?
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It seems like Apple Intelligence will work anywhere with a text input, so presumably will work with obsidian.
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I’d love to know the answer to this. On the one hand, macOS text replacements work in Obsidian (which gives me hope), but on the other hand system standards such as converting two minus characters to an em-dash don’t (which makes me sad).
I’d love to know definitively whether the upcoming Apple Intelligence features will work…
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It’s not there so far. Anything devs can do to enable it?
I hope to see this feature. Please add apple “writing tool” to right click menu.
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I would also love to be able to use Apple’s “writing tools” (summarize, etc.) in Obsidian. I read somewhere that the features work in any standard text view on Mac, and I remember thinking that probably rules out Obsidian. If the devs can somehow enable that functionality, I would be very pleasantly surprised!
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Totally agree, I’m now upgrading my Mac to MACOS 15.1 beta, and satisfied with new Apple intelligence writing tools, but in Obsidian right click menu, I cannot find the entry for writing tools, looking forward to a plugin to enable it before it’s officially supported.
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Does it work in chrome?
Yes, it seems to work everywhere else in the beta. In chrome, safari, and some other note taking apps.
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I would love to know if it’s possible for writing tools to come to obsidian because I’m starting to lean toward other software because of those tools.
Currently, it doesn’t work. It seems to me that Obsidian just overrides the context (i.e., secondary / right-click) menu, thus hiding the “Writing Tools” option? In any case, here’s a workaround of sorts: use “Open in default app”.
On my system, I have iA Writer set as the default app for Markdown files. This allows me to use “Open in default app” from Obsidian to open a note in iA Writer and edit it there (which I sometimes like to do for focus). The Obsidian note will update in sync as iA Writer is editing the same file. Apple Intelligence writing tools work in iA Writer. Presumably the same will work with many other apps that you may use to edit Markdown.
This also works on iOS/iPadOS, albeit slightly differently: you need to share the note from Obsidian to iA Writer via the iOS Share menu. Again, iA Writer will edit the same file. (I use iCloud sync; not sure if this will work with other sync options.)
I’m sure the devs will sort this out once Apple Intelligence comes out of Beta.
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I really hope we will get those writing tools within Obsidian. I feel quite sad as Obsidian at this point neither supports auto correct nor writing tools on macOS. I love Obsidian but that’s a quite a disadvantage to even the built in notes app.
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It would be good to get the writing tools into the context menu because it would be so useful to correct my grammar after quickly taking notes in my lectures
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It seems we are waiting on Electron for our bright AI future. 
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Yes still not available in the right click context.
A shame since obsidian is about the only writing tool I use so the only place where such tools would be relevant, so I haven’t really found any use case to test them otherwise ! lol
I just tried the open in default app workaround and set my default app to Bear, so I suppose that is useful enough for now…
Excited for when Electron adds this…
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Replying to this because all you have to do is go to Edit in the toolbar menu and open writing tools.
You do have to select your text first, but it works.
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Just tested and it works !
Does not seem to work with me…
All the options under Writing Tools are greyed out even when text is selected.
Any clues?
did you click it from the Edit tab from the finder bar ?