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AI Notes Summary

irbullirbull5k downloads

Use OpenAI to generate a summary of referenced notes.

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A plugin for Obsidian that uses OpenAI's GPT-3 to generate summaries of your notes. The plugin will look in the current note and find all the links to other notes. It will then generate a summary of each linked note and present it in a dialog. The plugin does not update your existing notes. It only generates a summary and presents it in a dialog. You can then copy the summary and paste it into your note.

The Prompt can be specified in the Front Matter of the note. If no prompt is specified, the plugin will use the default prompt specified in the settings.

This plugin is particularly useful for generating weekly (and monthly) summaries of your notes.

🚀 Installation & Setup

To use this plugin, you will need to have an OpenAI API key. You can get one from OpenAI. Once you have your key, you can enter it in the plugin settings. You can also specify a default prompt in the settings and maximum number of tokens to generate.

Settings

Once installed and configured, open a note with links to other notes. Then select the Summarize referenced notes command from the command palette.

Local Installation & Development

To run this plugin locally, follow these steps:

  1. Clone this repository.
  2. Run npm install to install the dependencies.
  3. Run npm run build to build the plugin.
  4. Copy the main.js,manifest.json file to your .obsidian/plugins/obsidian-ai-summary directory. (If you are not sure where to put it, create a new folder called obsidian-ai-summary in your .obsidian/plugins directory, or copy this repo to your .obsidian/plugins directory and run npm run build)
  5. Restart Obsidian.
  6. Open plugin settings and turn on the plugin.
  7. Try it out!

In obsidian, you can use Ctrl+Shift+I (Windows/Linux) or Cmd+Option+I (macOS) to open the developer console.

💪 Example Usage

The Obsidian AI Summary Plugin can be used to generate weekly summaries of your note. For example, if you create a weekly note called 2023-W01 with the following content:

---
Prompt: Write me a 2-3 paragraph summary of the work I completed this week in the first person. The work completed is below the '# 🚀 Work Completed' section.
---

# 🚀 What Did I Do This Week 2023/2023-W01

# 📅 Daily Notes

- [[2023-01-02]]
- [[2023-01-03]]
- [[2023-01-04]]
- [[2023-01-05]]
- [[2023-01-06]]

You can use the plugin to summarize those daily notes.

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Summarize all notes linked from the current note using OpenAI GPT-3. Present each linked note’s summary in a dialog for quick review and copying without modifying your files. Use a prompt from the note’s front matter or the default prompt to control the output.
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Current version
1.0.7
Last updated
4 months ago
Created
3 years ago
Updates
7 releases
Downloads
5k
Compatible with
Obsidian 0.15.0+
Platforms
Desktop only
License
MIT
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irbullirbull
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