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Add Private AI to Obsidian

A Next-Step Guide to Local Models for Your Notes, from First Question to a Vault That Answers Back

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You already keep your notes in Obsidian: a vault of linked files, daily notes, and a few plugins you trust. This adds one capability without changing that foundation: models that answer questions, find related notes, and draft or rewrite text, running entirely on your own computer. You start by putting a model on your own machine and learning what stays there, and what a deliberate choice, like a network-facing server or a cloud-connected default, would change instead. You learn to read a community plugin's security disclosures and trust signals before installing anything that touches your vault. From there you connect three plugins built around local models: one that surfaces related notes automatically with no setup, one that lets you chat with your vault and cites the notes its answer draws on, and one that runs quick actions, like summarizing or rewriting a selection, right inside the note. Each connects to a model on your computer, and every chapter states plainly what would leave it, and under which setting. You finish with a full privacy audit across every plugin and server you added, a method for asking questions your vault can answer and checking the answer against its source, and a routine for keeping plugins, indexes, and models current. Your notes stay exactly where they already are: on your own disk.
Pen name: Base Layer Creative · A Base Layer Books title, published by JK.Creative.
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