Chat Stream

An Obsidian plugin for conversing with GPT AI via canvas notes. Ancestor notes/files are included in the chat context. You can quickly create chat streams, and control what other notes are sent to the AI.

Install

Install as community plugin

Or, add rpggio/obsidian-chat-stream to BRAT.

Chat Stream is supported only on desktop.

Setup

Add an OpenAI API key in Chat Stream settings.

Usage

1. Select a note in the canvas
2. Press Alt+Shift+G to generate new note from GPT using current note + ancestors
3. To create next note for responding, press Alt+Shift+N.

AI notes are colored purple, and tagged with chat_role=assistant in the canvas data file.

Development

1. Download source and install dependencies

    pnpm install
   

2. In Obsidian, install and enable hot reload plugin
3. Create symbolic link from this project dir to an Obsidian store

    ln -s . your-obsidian-store/.obsidian/plugins/chat-stream
   

4. Start dev server

   pnpm run dev
   

5. In Obsidian, enable Chat Stream Plugin and add OpenAI key in plugin settings.

Changes to code should automatically be loaded into Obsidian.

Attribution

• Canvas plugin code from Canvas MindMap

Say thanks

If you love it you can send me a coffee thumbs-up so I know folks find it useful.