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Private AI

gabosgabgabosgab4k downloads

Effortlessly chat with your notes using locally hosted AI. Private by design, your notes never leave the device and use locally processing only.

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Your most sensitive notes, your private thoughts — other AI plugins send them to someone's servers. Private AI doesn't.

  • ✅ Your notes stay on your device
  • ✅ Use local LLMs like gpt-oss, Qwen3, Gemma4, DeepSeek, Mistral and many more, locally on your own hardware
  • ✅ No data is transmitted to external services
  • ✅ No analytics or tracking

Compatible With: LM Studio

Getting Started + Setup

  • Goto Community Plugins
  • Search Private AI and click Install
  • Click Enable

Enjoy!

Features

  • Easy Setup: Easy setup and model swapping with LM Studio
  • Cross Platform: Supports for most modern Mac and Windows machines
  • Integrated Vault Search: Automatically search your Obsidian vault for relevant information to provide contextual responses and cite specific notes from your vault
  • Open Tab Context: Focus your conversation on specific notes for focused insights
  • Performance Tuning: Customize models, search parameters, token limits, and more to tune performance for your hardware

Easy and powerful configuration

Example Queries

  • "I have to have a difficult conversation with a friend, read my journal entry about the situation and help me come up with a good way to talk to my friend compassionately"
  • "My partner was a jerk to me, help me look at other alternative reasons why they may have reacted the way they did"
  • "Talk to this journal entry like a good friend"
  • "When did I first meet Jacob?"
  • "What did frank talk about at our meeting on Obsidian plugins?"
  • "What did I write about machine learning?"
  • "What are my thoughts on productivity systems?"

Development

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit issues and pull requests.

Attributions

This project respects and is compatible with the original licenses of all code and dependencies used:

Development Tools

  • esbuild - MIT License - Used for bundling the plugin
  • TypeScript - Apache-2.0 License - Used for type safety
  • Obsidian API - MIT License - Official Obsidian plugin API

Dependencies

All development dependencies are used under their respective open-source licenses (MIT, Apache-2.0, ISC, BSD) and are properly externalized in the build process.

Third-Party Services

This plugin integrates with local LLM services but does not include any of their code:

  • LM Studio - Proprietary - Local LLM interface

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

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Keep your notes private by running local LLMs on your device with no data sent to external services. Search your Obsidian vault for context and cite specific notes, and focus conversations on open notes for targeted insights. Switch models easily via LM Studio compatibility.
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Details
Current version
1.0.64
Last updated
2 months ago
Created
11 months ago
Updates
45 releases
Downloads
4k
Compatible with
Obsidian 1.8.10+
Platforms
Desktop only
License
MIT
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Author
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