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Caret

jcollingjjcollingj8k downloads

An AI workbench. Canvas, Chat and more LLM powered features.

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Note: This plugin is no longer being actively maintained.

Caret is an Obsidian plugin that brings the power of LLMs into your Obsidian Vault. Caret follows all the main Obsidian philosophies. It's local-first, privacy preserving and stores all generated data as local files.

Features:

  • AI Canvas: Use LLMs in the Obsidian Canvas for non-linear chat and more.
  • Chat: Chat directly in Obsidian. Reference other files in your vault. All chat logs are stored as vault files.
  • Use Any LLMs: Use Caret OP with local or remote LLMs. Caret OP has built in support for Ollama, OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq, OpenRouter and you can add any additional models yourself.

Docs

The full docs for the plugin will be on the site: https://www.caretplugin.ai/

Design Principles

These are the principles that guide the design and development of Caret. If a potential feature doesn't follow these then it probably won't be included in Caret OP.

  • Keep to local-first
  • No external services outside of LLM providers. No external APIs, DBs, RAG providers etc. All Caret OP functionality should come from just Caret OP.
  • All Caret OP data is should be stored as markdown files within the users vault. Anything that Caret creates or consumes should be savable as a local file.

Contributing

PRs welcome! More guidelines to come on this. But essentially if it's good, readable code that fits the Caret OP design principles then I'll try my best to incorporate it.

Big emphasis on "follows Caret OP's design principles". Please don't start working on something that violates a design principle without running it past me first. I don't want you to possibly waste time if it's a feature that I won't be able to incorporate.

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Bring LLMs into your Obsidian vault with chat and an AI Canvas, saving all generated content as local Markdown files. Chat with context from other notes and run local or remote models via Caret OP (supports Ollama, OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq, OpenRouter, and custom models).
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Details
Current version
0.2.80
Last updated
8 months ago
Created
2 years ago
Updates
71 releases
Downloads
8k
Compatible with
Obsidian 1.5.12+
Platforms
Desktop only
License
MIT
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Author
jcollingjjcollingj
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