Local AI use cases with Obsidian
Obsidian is a markdown note-taking app that stores notes as local files. Community plugins and custom RAG pipelines connect it to local models.
Rebel BitesOffline RAG over 268 Obsidian notes, queryable from a coding agent
nomic-embed-text, ChromaDB and mistral-nemo:12b give cited answers from a vault of internal docs, and an MCP server lets the coding agent search it too.
mdrag: a Rust CLI to chat with an Obsidian vault
A self-contained RAG tool built on SQLite with sqlite-vec and gemma3:1b. It answers 'how did I fix that Git submodule issue?' from your own notes.
Connecting a private Obsidian vault to Ollama on macOS
Meeting notes stay off public AI services. llama3.1 and nomic-embed-text in Ollama, wired up through the Local GPT and AI Providers plugins.
Obsidian vault Q&A with Mini-RAG and llama.cpp
An Obsidian plugin that chats with a note or folder, using separate local llama.cpp servers for chat and embeddings (Ollama works too).
Local-first meeting notes app (whisper.cpp + Ollama)
A macOS app that records your mic and the call's audio as two tracks, transcribes locally and writes a Markdown note with 'You vs. Them' speaker labels.