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Deep Notes

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Generate deep questions and suggestions from your notes using AI.

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Turn your Obsidian notes into an active study session powered by AI.

View the full demo at deepnotes.wiki


What is Deep Notes?

Deep Notes is an Obsidian plugin that transforms your notes into an interactive learning experience. Open any note, pick a study mode, and let AI generate questions tailored to your content. Answer, get evaluated, and schedule your next review without leaving Obsidian.


Study Modes

Mode Description
Socratic AI generates open-ended questions from your note. Answer in your own words and get detailed feedback.
MCQ Multiple choice questions on your note content. Answer all, then get a score.
Feynman Explain a concept back as if teaching someone else. AI evaluates your depth and clarity.
Flashcards Front/back cards generated from your note. Click to flip, export to Markdown when done.

Installation

  1. Open Obsidian Settings → Community Plugins → turn off Restricted Mode
  2. Click Browse and search for Deep Notes
  3. Click Install, then Enable

Setup

Deep Notes requires one AI provider to generate and evaluate questions:

  • Gemini (recommended): Get a free API key at aistudio.google.com and paste it in the plugin settings
  • Ollama (local/offline): Install Ollama and pull a model (e.g. ollama pull llama3.2)

Quick Start

  1. Open any markdown note in Obsidian
  2. Open the Deep Notes panel from the sidebar
  3. Select a study mode and click Generate Questions
  4. Answer the questions, hit Evaluate & save session, and schedule your review

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. See CONTRIBUTING.md for setup instructions, code style, and the PR process.


License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.


Support & Authors

If you encounter issues, need help, or want to provide feedback, please open an issue on GitHub Issues or contact the maintainers directly:

  • Aaditya Dhungana — [email protected]
  • Emmanuel Buhari — [email protected]
  • Noah Nguyen — [email protected]

Buy Us a Coffee

If you enjoy Deep Notes and want to support further development, you can buy us a coffee!

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Transform notes into an active learning tutor that prompts probing Socratic questions and links concepts across your vault. Generate recursive follow-ups, score answers against ideal responses, build a local semantic index for cross-note context, OCR images/Excalidraw text, and schedule spaced-repetition reviews.
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Current version
1.1.1
Last updated
2 months ago
Created
6 months ago
Updates
6 releases
Downloads
135
Compatible with
Obsidian 1.7.2+
Platforms
Desktop only
License
MIT
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