Free and open source

Your vault,
but smarter

Chat with your notes, watch them sort themselves into topics, and search by meaning, all powered by AI you choose, even fully offline.

Search and the graph work with no AI setup at all.
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How it works

Your notes group themselves, then you build on them

One evening of exam prep: your notes sort into topics, the agent drafts from one, a search fills the gap it names, and you approve.

My vault — Obsidian
Graph

Your notes, grouped by what they're about

Topics are worked out from how your notes actually relate, with no folders to maintain, no tags to remember. This one is yours to play with.

  • Topics: it works them out for you. Related notes are grouped, colour-coded and outlined, read from your links and your writing. Nothing to set up.
  • Immerse: dive into a topic. Circle one and the graph rebuilds around just those notes, with finer topics inside. Watch it in the demo above.
  • Topic labels: topics that name themselves. Ask once and each gets a name from what's in it. The names are remembered, not re-done.
  • Collapse: fold it down to the shape. Every topic becomes a single point for the whole vault at a glance, then open the one you want.
Granularity

Pick a level: the same notes, gathered into fewer big topics or split into smaller ones.

Search

Find it the way you remember it

Start with the words you'd expect. When those aren't the words you used, one press searches by meaning instead — or start a new note if nothing turns up at all.

psych101how to make it last
Lecture 8 — Sleep· Psych 101
deep sleep and its role in retaining what you learn
Week 7 slides.pdf· Psych 101
slide 18, the hippocampus and storing memories
Attach to chatsemantic: on
  • ✓Full-text search: it reads what's inside. Obsidian searches your notes, this also indexes PDF content, turning up PDFs Obsidian can't find at all. No AI provider needed.
  • ✓Semantic search: for when you forgot the words. One press searches by what you meant, turning up notes that never use your words. Back to normal on the next search.
  • ✓Filters: narrow it as you type. Type # for a tag or / for a folder and it becomes a chip on the box. Stack them to combine.
  • ✓Ask the agent: turn a search into a question. Send it to the agent instead, keeping your wording and whatever you'd narrowed it to.
Agents

An assistant that lives in your vault

Each agent is a chat with tools for reading and editing your vault — all of it files in that vault. Any change it makes to a note is staged for your approval, and when you ask for a chart or a dashboard it draws one in the chat, live from your notes.

  • Memory: what it learns is written to notes in the Memories folder, shared by all agents. Edit or delete them like any note.
  • Skills: exploring the vault, editing notes, widgets, web search and managing skills ship as core skills — each a folder holding one SKILL note. Add your own, or have the agent write one.
  • Chats: every conversation is a file in the Chats folder — synced, indexed for search, embeddable in a note. Editing an earlier message branches the thread rather than overwriting it.
  • Integrations: enable another plugin for an agent and it can call that plugin's API. Dataview, Tasks and TaskNotes come with ready skills, Canvas and Bases files with the normal tools, and any plugin exposing an API is found automatically.
  • Widgets: ask for a chart, a table, a dashboard or an interactive 3D plot and the agent draws it in the chat, fed by live queries over your notes. Save one as a .widget file to open it as a pane or embed it in a note — and when the agent revises it later, you review the rendered result.

Also: MCP servers, image and PDF attachments, subagents with their own instructions, and several chats running in parallel.

Privacy

Your notes stay yours

Six providers, two of them fully offline. Where the AI runs decides what it can ever see.

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OpenAI
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OpenAI-compatible

Set it up once and forget it, or read how the privacy model works.

Make your second brain smarter

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