How I'm Using AI *WITH* My Obsidian Vault 

Can you link your child content brainstorming template? It doesn't seem to be included with the plugin.

Same here, just not too keen on plugging my entire vault to openAI, have a video coming out on it soon!

NucliaDB might be perfect for this. You’d have to use its webui however, at least until someone writes an Obsidian plugin, they do have an API, hint hint 😁

I agree with you@@FromSergio. How about plugging in the Mistral7B model which can run locally on your computer? And by the way, how is that video you've mentioned coming along?

Tomer!! Good to hear from you :) That's so kind, it makes me proud to read it! Super glad you feel that way. As for your PKM system - as long as your system works for you, that's what matters! Have a great weekend friend

@@FromSergio 💪❤

100% agree.

Hi @tomer.nosrati, can you comment on what your insights are on improving your PKM system? I am on a similar journey.

@@d3lirious definitely! DO DAILY NOTES!! You have no idea how much of a game changer it is. Everything else became 2nd priority. And don't waste time on many templates, let them grow out of repetitive manual use until you're manually consistent with your format. The impact it had on me is priceless and life-changing.

Glad it's helpful! Thanks for the coffee :)

Slowly working on it! Super excited to see where this is going :)

Me too! Im waiting for that

Excellent idea Hugo! I hadn't thought of that and have just added it to my list :)

@@FromSergio Happy to help! :)

obsidian vault for our input and knowledge base? I think it can be executed by using python llama index in python dont know are there python plugin for obsidian

Hope you enjoyed it! :)

Thanks Ondrej! It means a lot :)

YES! Love the priority 2 reference! That sounds great :)

Thank you :) Appreciate it!

You as well! :)

Using Embeddings. The problem is the format of my notes, the model (for now) needs it to be a certain format. I haven't had time to fully explore this but I will in the near future and will make a video on it.

​@@FromSergio Embeddings gives any block of text a "signature": a 1536 dimensions vector (latest model: text-embedding-ada-002) Quite impressive to know this vector alone can be used to find similitudes with other related notes, applying the dot product of two vectors (cosine similarity), with a result ranging from 1 (max similarity) to -1 (quite distant). There's an Obsidian plugin for that as you probably know: "Smart Connections" I bet this is also the "technology" behind the napkin one addictive app, which present all your similar notes in a fancy manner, without you having to classify them. Bonus question: Is it still worth it to manually tag or link our notes, if the AI can do it for us? Now, according to openAI API, they have another end-point to train AI with your own data set: the Fine-Tuning model. After the training, you don't have to manually put your notes into the prompt as a context, because it's already in the "AI brain" by default. Quite exciting, but it looks quite daunting to feed the AI with 500+ prompts with their respective expected answers. Also, it doesn't look like this kind of training can make the AI capable of answering interesting inputs, like: "Reminds me what are my favorite insights about learning", or like "Based on my notes, give me a list of interesting facts that intersect between learning and teaching". As with any tech, the question is: how do we want to use it? With a PKM like Obsidian, full of 1K+ notes: what kind of questions would be interesting to invoke? It looks like combining AI with Obsidian could lead ultimately to a closer second brain, being able to resurface any thought we once had that makes sense depending on the context at hand.

@@FromSergio really looking forward to this

Options are just what you see on the command pallete, they're mostly just different ways of adding a template

I'll be sure to share it!

Thanks Christopher :)

Glad it was helpful! :)

Thanks, Dan! That's exactly what I said to another comment. My problem is also the Markdown format in my notes. I'll have more time to dedicate to this project in the summer, so hope to have a video on it by then! :)

Thanks for letting me know, means a lot :)

Thanks Noureddine :)

Thanks! Appreciate it! I don't but that's a great thing for me to look into! :)

@@FromSergio awesome! 💪

Hey Jas! Minimal theme has been my preference for about a year now!

Hi Justin! Yes there is definitely a valid privacy concern here. The API needs to process what you give it. And there's no clear way of knowing for certain what happens to the data that is sent. It's a big subject right now not just for the API but the ChatGPT side of things. I plan on making a video on it. As it stands it seems like privacy is being neglected in favor of training the model at a faster rate. Hopefully this changes soon!

The privacy is a valid concern. There are open sourced alternatives that you can run locally but they're not as competent!

@@FromSergio Could elaborate on those or where to find them?

I'll do my best :)

Hi Greg, still working on it on my free time :)

there are alternatives besides obsidian

Different use cases!

Interaction between personal vault and AI could lead to questions like: "reminds me 10 insights I had about learning over the last 6 months". Or like "Based on my notes, tell me how learning intersect with teaching". The "thinking prompt" you're exposing seems to be feasible with pulling a random line out of a dedicated note listing all the good prompts you came across. There's already an Obsidian plugin for that, and there's no AI involved. Or I may have misunderstood what it is you were thinking about.

@@yoricman thanks for your input. Your comment has captured my two wishes: 1) to have AI tell me my thoughts/insights on a subject from across my vault. 2) getting writing prompts from a list in a note. I'm very pleased that there is a plugin for no. 2, do you happen to recall the name? Regardless, thanks for your reply.

Thanks! :)

It does!

I know that chatgpt will indeed stand in the way of more controversial topics which leads me to believe so will GPT3.5

That wouldn't work, at least not yet. There are limits that would preven tthis. Embeddings is what I'm looking at to fully train a model on my vault

It costs dollars based on how many tokens (words) are generated. This includes the input and output. But it’s only $0.002/1K tokens

Thanks so much for your generosity :)

Glad you enjoyed it :)

no yuo wrong

I haven't yet! It's on the list!

You dont, it's deducted automatically on a per-request basis when you trigger the API.

I don't believe so!

Hi Russell! Hard to tell without seeing the logs but a few questions might help - does this only happen with simplify? Does it work fine otherwise? Do you have the "display errors in the editor" toggled on?

I know the feeling! But obsidian is perfectly capable of outlining, I do mostly long form with specific note types like notes on courses I take being outline. Of course it's not as outline focused as logseq!

Doable. Last I checked Llama was not as good as 3.5 though especially for my use cases. Have no experience with alpaca.

Probably sooner than that :) / :(

Never said otherwise!

You need to install them first, then they will be found under a text generator folder in your obsidian file system! I covered it in the video, is it not working for you?

@@FromSergio Sergio, hi. I'd love to install them, but I don't see them listed under Core Plugins or Community Plugins. Currently, I have an Insider Catalyst License, so I would expect to see all the latest plugins. And I've searched for the plugins. Am I missing something? Thanks, Dan.

I found and installed them!

It has just been added, just update the plugin. You need to have access to it though and it's currently on a waitlist basis.

Same problem here - So first of all thanks a lot for this very informative video. It works fine for me, except the part with the children notes. I don't get that working. There is a difference in the usage of "CONTENT" and "CONTEXT" between the default templates and the screenshot Sergio is showing at 10:03. Unfortunately also the documentation is not very clear about that point. Could you go a bit more into detail how this works?

i tried ,works fine!

They're still available on my end

@@FromSergio Maybe it's my region or platform, I'll have to try it when I get back home on my usual windows PC. I'm using a Mac Air in Japan right now so that might be messing with my CDN or something

@@delta-a17 same here. Did you manage to fix it?

@@PedroMaia108 Nope.

Same here, can't find the Default Prompts plugin. Is there any way of sharing the old content?

Maybe one day soon but not yet :)

Exactly!

Absolutely, spoke about it on the last newsletter and am making a video on it soon!

Chat GPT goes down during periods of high usage very regularly for all free users. once you go plus you dont actually pay for anything. you still get the same 5 bucks a month free but you have a credit card on file with them in case you go over. you can also limit the cost to 5 bucks and then you get 0 downtime free plan. but I just limited it to 15 bucks, the limit includes your free 5

@@Pinko-Diamond Not sure how that helps my issue but the Author of the Plugin released a updated version that fixed a bug. I'm also on the paid plan.

lol mad

Inevitable for now. But it's come a *very* long way since davinci 002!

And?

@@octain read it and go on to your life mate

@@bernardobotelhomiranda9806 bozo

I do not do either of those things. I only talk about what I do use.

It is indeed cheap for 99% of applications. I use it daily, roughly 10-30 requests, and my monthly bill with gpt 3.5 will likely be 0.5-1$/month by my Davinci 003 estimates. It does have limitations, it won't analyze a 20,000-word dissertation. But i'm thrilled with it.

@@FromSergio Does it have a higher limit than using ChatGPT though? If you can tell the approx limit, would be great. I love that we can use it in obsidian with a simple setup and looks like it's on a per usage basis rather than monthly plus plan that chatgpt plus offers?