diff --git a/content/articles/memex-chat-obsidian-plugin.md b/content/articles/memex-chat-obsidian-plugin.md index 3a1b3b4..2113eb1 100644 --- a/content/articles/memex-chat-obsidian-plugin.md +++ b/content/articles/memex-chat-obsidian-plugin.md @@ -1,14 +1,15 @@ --- -date: 2026-03-18T07:26:09.705Z +date: 2026-03-09T11:04:48.857Z title: "Memex Chat: Obsidian Plugin I built for myself" -summary: Memex Chat is an Obsidian plugin that lets you chat with your vault using Claude AI with proper context retrieval, not just keyword search. +deleted: 2026-03-13T05:59:16.621Z +summary: I've been using Obsidian for years as my primary thinking environment. At some point I got tired of switching between my notes and AI tools, copy-pasting context back and forth. So I built something that works the way I actually think. category: - dev - - on/memex + - AI mpSyndicateTo: - https://blog.giersig.eu/ visibility: public -updated: 2026-03-18T07:39:40.954Z +updated: 2026-03-19T15:42:47.143Z mpUrl: https://blog.giersig.eu/articles/memex-chat-obsidian-plugin/ permalink: /articles/memex-chat-obsidian-plugin/ ai: @@ -18,9 +19,11 @@ ai: # aiDescription: "Optional disclosure about how AI was used" --- +Memex Chat is an Obsidian plugin that lets you chat with your vault using Claude AI with proper context retrieval, not just keyword search. + What it does: -- Semantic vault search - a TF-IDF index over all your notes, no external API needed for retrieval +- Semantic vault search — a TF-IDF index over all your notes, no external API needed for retrieval - Local embeddings — optional on-device semantic search using BGE Micro v2, fully offline after one model download (~22 MB) - Auto context — relevant notes are automatically found and attached to your query before it even reaches Claude - @ mentions — reference specific notes directly in your message with autocomplete @@ -28,7 +31,8 @@ What it does: - Related notes sidebar — always-on panel showing the most similar notes to whatever you have open, ranked by semantic similarity, frontmatter links, and shared tags - Thread history — chats saved as Markdown in your vault, so nothing disappears - Source links — every answer shows which notes were used as context -- Prompt buttons — configurable header buttons that extend Claude’s system prompt (e.g. draft check, monthly review) -- Installation is manual for now — download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from the latest release, drop them into .obsidian/plugins/memex-chat/, enable in Community Plugins, and add your Anthropic API key. +- Prompt buttons — configurable header buttons that extend Claude's system prompt (e.g. draft check, monthly review) -→ https://github.com/svemagie/obsidian-memex-chat +Installation is manual for now — download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from the latest release, drop them into .obsidian/plugins/memex-chat/, enable in Community Plugins, and add your Anthropic API key. + +→ https://github.com/svemagie/memex-chat