Local GPT plugin for Obsidian

No speedup. MacBook Pro 13, M1, 16GB, Ollama, orca-mini.

The plugin allows you to open a context menu on selected text to pick an AI assistant action or open the Action Palette to run a one-time action. The most casual AI assistant for Obsidian.

Action Palette

Features

Works with images

No speedup. MacBook Pro 13, M1, 16GB, Ollama, bakllava.

Can use context from links, backlinks, and even PDF files (RAG)

How to use (Ollama)

1. Install Embedding model:

• For English: ollama pull nomic-embed-text (fastest)
• For other languages: ollama pull bge-m3 (slower, but more accurate)

2. Select Embedding provider in plugin's settings and try to use the largest model with largest context window.

Default actions

• Continue writing
• Summarize text
• Fix spelling and grammar
• Find action items in text
• General help (just use selected text as a prompt for any purpose)
• New System Prompt to create actions for your needs

Community Actions

You can browse and install community actions directly from the plugin settings.

Automatic Updates: Community actions are automatically updated to the latest version. To stick with a specific version or preserve your changes, simply modify the Prompt or System Prompt. This will disable auto-updates for that action. Note: Changing the Name of the action does not disable auto-updates.

Supported languages

• English
• Chinese
• Dutch
• French
• German
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Portuguese
• Russian
• Spanish

Installation

1. Install Plugin

Obsidian plugin store (recommended)

This plugin is available in the Obsidian community plugin store https://obsidian.md/plugins?id=local-gpt

BRAT

You can also install this plugin via BRAT: pfrankov/obsidian-local-gpt

2. Install AI Providers Plugin

You also need to install the AI Providers plugin from the plugin store to configure AI providers: https://obsidian.md/plugins?id=ai-providers

3. Configure AI Providers

Follow the instructions in AI Providers plugin.

Configure Obsidian hotkeys

1. Open Obsidian Settings
2. Go to Hotkeys
3. Filter "Local" and you should see "Local GPT: Show context menu"
4. Click on + icon and press hotkey (e.g. ⌘ + M)
5. Filter "Local" again and you should see "Local GPT: Action Palette"
6. Click on + icon and press hotkey (e.g. ⌘ + J)

My other Obsidian plugins

• Colored Tags that colorizes tags in distinguishable colors.
• Obsidian AI Providers is a hub for AI providers.

Inspired by

• Obsidian Ollama.