[tinix]

isn't this antithetical to the spirit of obsidian?

tossing one's private notes to openai seems odd for such a tool that is marketed this way:

> Obsidian is the private and flexible writing app that adapts to the way you think.

> Obsidian stores notes on your device, so you can access them quickly, even offline. No one else can read them, not even us.

[tomComb]

Most obsidian user seem to have tons of community plug-ins installed, so I wouldn’t really call them privacy obsessives.

And obsidian has lots of other great features, so I think it is an attractive option even for people who don’t really care about the ‘local’ angle.

[alanbernstein]

Did you miss the "flexible" part of your quote? Obsidian's value proposition is not simply "private". It does a lot more than that.

Personally, I'm interested in this sort of functionality because I would like my notes to be densely cross-referenced whenever possible, automatically and intelligently.

[spondyl]

> isn't this antithetical to the spirit of obsidian?

I think so, yeah. Kepano (CEO of Obsidian, the company) has stated that they're waiting for the technology to progress to where models can be run locally.

Anything goes with third party plugins of course

EDIT: Jumping to timestamp 50:08 is a good summarisation of their thoughts from the man himself: https://youtube.com/watch?v=TkNTuFF2t-c

[technovangelist]

But I think we are there for most tasks. I thought a bit about this today and wrote a blog post about how to use a local ai tool, Ollama, to summarize, make links, and ask questions about my notes. It’s not a fully fleshed out plugin but shows the start in about 20 or so lines of typescript.

Check out the post here https://ollama.ai/blog/llms-in-obsidian

and a companion video here: https://youtu.be/ubXNPHpYREE