Convert Chaos into Order.
Streamline your Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) workflow by harnessing the power of local AI to organize, refine, and extract wisdom from your notes.
✨ What is Coherence Wizard?
Coherence Wizard is a unified toolkit designed for Obsidian users who are passionate about self-development and efficient knowledge management. It provides a suite of 14+ powerful tools to automate the tedious parts of maintaining a digital garden, allowing you to focus on connecting ideas and generating insights.
Privacy First: This plugin is built to run entirely offline using Local AI (via Ollama). Your data never leaves your machine.
🚀 Key Features
🧠 Content Enhancement & Wisdom
- Summarizer: Instantly generate concise summaries of your notes using AI.
- Wisdom Extractor: Transform raw notes into profound, universal insights.
- Generalizer: Rewrite personal texts into relatable, general advice suitable for a public audience.
- Atomizer: Split long, monolithic documents into atomic notes based on headings, dates, or dividers.
🗂️ Organization & Structure
- Categorizer: Automatically analyze note content and assign relevant categories (tags or folders) based on your custom dictionary.
- Chrono Merge: Intelligently merge fragmented notes created within a specific time window (e.g., "Audio Note 1", "Audio Note 2").
- Parse and Move: Automatically move files to specific folders based on their content or metadata.
- Concatonizer: Combine multiple files into a single master document.
🛡️ Privacy & Publishing
- Censor & Alias: Prepare your personal notes for public sharing by automatically finding and replacing sensitive names, places, or terms with aliases (e.g., "John" → "Bob").
- Distill: A dedicated workflow to refine and sanitize notes for publication.
🧹 Maintenance & Metadata
- Date Fix: Standardize date formats in your filenames and metadata.
- YAML Template: Enforce consistent YAML frontmatter across your vault.
- Deduplication: Identify and remove duplicate files to keep your vault clean.
- Auto-Rating: Use AI to rate the quality and coherence of your notes.
🛠️ Prerequisites
To use the AI-powered features of this plugin, you must have Ollama installed and running on your computer.
- Download and install Ollama.
- Pull a model suitable for your hardware. We recommend:
- High Performance:
gemma3:12b
- Lower Resources:
gemma3:4b
- Ensure Ollama is running (default URL:
http://localhost:11434).
⚠️ Hardware Note: Local AI models require decent hardware. A dedicated GPU is highly recommended for speed. CPU-only mode may be slow.
📦 Installation
- Open Obsidian Settings > Community Plugins.
- Search for "Coherence Wizard".
- Install and Enable.
Manual Installation
- Download the latest release from the GitHub Releases page.
- Extract the
main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css files into your vault's .obsidian/plugins/coherence-wizard/ folder.
- Reload Obsidian.
⚙️ Configuration
After installing, go to Settings > Coherence Wizard.
- Ollama URL: Ensure this matches your local instance (default is correct for most).
- Dictionaries: Crucial Step! You must configure your Categorization and Censor dictionaries to match your personal workflow.
- Categorize: Define your topics (e.g., Work, Personal, Ideas).
- Censor: Define name mappings (e.g.,
John, Jon = Bob).
- YAML Template: Define the standard frontmatter keys you want to enforce.
☕ Support
If this tool saves you time or helps you bring order to your chaos, please consider supporting its development!
📄 License
MIT License. See license for details.
Disclaimer: This is a beta plugin relying on probabilistic AI models. Always backup your vault before running bulk operations.