NutEgg

Read less, hatch more, save time.
Capture web content, evaluate novelty with AI, and grow structured knowledge trees inside your Obsidian vault.

NutEgg is a two-part system designed to turn mindless browsing into an active, structured knowledge base:

• Chrome Extension — Grabs content from any webpage, tweet, or YouTube video (with transcripts). We call these raw captures nuts 🌰.
• Obsidian Plugin — Analyzes content with AI, evaluates novelty against your existing notes, and curates your knowledge base. We call these organized knowledge trees eggs 🥚.

💬 Feedback and ideas are always welcome via GitHub Issues or email at [email protected].

✨ Features

• Smart Content Extraction:
  • YouTube: Full timestamped transcripts (including auto-generated captions) and clickable chapter maps.
  • Twitter / X: Full threads, authors, media badges, and engagement metrics.
  • Articles & Blogs: Medium, Substack, and generic web articles with ads and sidebars stripped.
• "Should You Read It?" Verdict:
  • Delivers a 3-sentence executive summary.
  • Gives a concrete recommendation on whether the content is worth your time based on your existing knowledge.
• Title Verdict (Anti-Clickbait):
  • Directly answers the headline's question or hook in one sentence to save you time.
• Novelty Highlighting:
  • Compares extracted entries against your existing Obsidian knowledge trees ("Eggs").
  • Highlights ✨ New Insights in one view and identifies ✅ Already in Tree items so you don't waste time re-learning known concepts.
• Quick Capture Actions:
  • 🥚 Hatch Egg: Extracts fresh insights and attaches them hierarchically into your structured knowledge trees in Obsidian.
  • 🌰 Collect Nut: Saves a clean, raw markdown copy of the web page or video transcript into your vault archive (nutegg/_raw/).
• Knowledge Tree Curation:
  • Keeps knowledge organized by structuring new insights under matching concepts, filtering out duplicates, and maintaining clean topic trees.

What You Should Not Expect

1. No magic: You won't get smarter just by clicking a button. Truly mastering knowledge still requires active reading, critical thinking, and practice.
2. Built for fluff and clickbait, not structured textbooks: NutEgg is designed to save you time on bloated clickbait videos, repetitive blog posts, and AI-generated articles puffed up from a few simple ideas. It is not intended for deeply structured long-form material like textbooks or online courses—doing so will give you fragmented knowledge snippets rather than an organized learning system.
3. Not tailored for entertainment: NutEgg is built for information density and insight extraction, not for summarizing comedy, movies, or entertainment videos (though you may make custom prompts that might work).
4. Work in progress: Support for podcasts, PDF files, and additional formats is actively in development.

📦 Installation

Option 1: Obsidian Community Plugins (Recommended)

Install directly from the Obsidian Community Plugins Directory or search for NutEgg in Obsidian under Settings → Community Plugins → Browse.

Option 2: Manual Installation

1. Download the latest release files (main.js, manifest.json, styles.css) from the Releases page.
2. In your Obsidian vault, navigate to .obsidian/plugins/ (create the directory if it doesn't exist).
3. Create a folder named nutegg and copy main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css into it:

   your-vault/.obsidian/plugins/nutegg/
   ├── main.js
   ├── manifest.json
   └── styles.css
   

4. In Obsidian, go to Settings → Community Plugins, reload installed plugins, and toggle NutEgg on.

Option 2: Using BRAT

1. Install the BRAT plugin in Obsidian.
2. Open Settings → BRAT → Add Beta plugin.
3. Enter repository: staff-000/nutegg-obsidian-release.
4. Enable NutEgg once installed.

🚀 Quick Start

1. Enable the Plugin:
   • In Obsidian, go to Settings → Community Plugins and toggle NutEgg on.
2. Configure AI Provider:
   • Open Settings → NutEgg.
   • Choose your preferred provider (Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, DeepSeek, etc.) and enter your API key.
3. Local Sync Server (Zero Setup):
   • NutEgg starts the local sync server automatically in the background on port 27123.
   • No extra setup required — you can verify the connection status anytime via the Chrome extension popup indicator.
4. Set Up Knowledge Eggs:
   • All knowledge files live in the nutegg/ folder in your vault.
   • Starter template files are generated automatically on first launch.
   • Customize or add files to fit your personal knowledge areas:
     • nutegg/_index.md — (Required) Routing guide that maps topics and keywords to egg files.
     • nutegg/invest_strategy.md — (Sample) Investment and portfolio knowledge tree.
     • nutegg/psychology.md — (Sample) Cognitive biases and mental models.
     • nutegg/ai_ml.md — (Sample) AI & Machine Learning knowledge tree.
5. Install Chrome Extension:
   • Install the companion NutEgg from Chrome Web Store.
   • Browse the web, click Analyze, and watch insights stream into Obsidian!

📂 Vault Structure

Everything managed by NutEgg lives cleanly within a single nutegg/ folder:

vault/
└── nutegg/
    ├── _raw/                          # Captured nuts (raw web content with metadata)
    │   └── 2026-09-04-14-30-youtube-dankoe-the-art-of-strategic-thinking.md
    ├── _index.md                      # Egg routing guide
    ├── ai_ml.md                       # Knowledge egg
    ├── psychology.md                  # Knowledge egg
    └── productivity.md                # Knowledge egg

🔗 Related Links

• Chrome Extension: NutEgg on Chrome Web Store
• Obsidian Plugin: NutEgg on Community Plugins
• Main Repository: staff-000/nutegg

📄 License

GNU General Public License v3.0