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@kepano @ZubinTehe @obsdmd CLI is awesome! But I've ended up building a local MCP on top of CLI because the MCP adds vault structure, notes logic and semantic search. For instance, my MCP knows exactly under which daily notes' header I journal and where I take meeting notes. And semantic search+graph=🤯

@ZubinTehe @obsdmd CLI is better than MCP - faster - direct access to your local files - no need for a server/auth - easier for both humans and agents to access and explore - composable with pipes e.g. cmd1 | cmd2 | cmd3

Anything you can do in Obsidian you can do from the command line. Obsidian CLI is now available in 1.12 (early access).

@kepano @slmn_sh FWIW, I built my MCP; uses CLI and REST plugin to read my notes locally + Qdrant + Ollama to vector index / semantic search locally. The MCP plugin can't do that. My MCP also has the logic of my vault structure. Data: Obsidian Logic & Search: MCP+Qdrant+Ollama Reasoning: Claude

@slmn_sh Obsidian Sync is end-to-end encrypted. An MCP for it would be useless. Unless you mean a local MCP in which case why not use the CLI?

If you are using MCP to access your data, you are trusting that third party with unencrypted access to your data. Third-party MCPs are not an option if you value privacy. End-to-end encryption makes MCP effectively useless.

@felixrieseberg ❤️this and already testing! Any plan to sync Cowork sessions between devices the same way that Chats - stand-alone or within projects - are being synced today? I'd love to get an always-on machine, but handover of a Cowork task between that machine and my laptop is the issue 🤯

We're shipping a new feature in Claude Cowork as a research preview that I'm excited about: Dispatch! One persistent conversation with Claude that runs on your computer. Message it from your phone. Come back to finished work. To try it out, download Claude Desktop, then pair your phone.

@JeremyNguyenPhD @kepano Same here...I have no idea how @kepano does that...

@kepano Just started using 1.9—but don't seem to be able to navigate the files quickly like this demo you showed months ago, @kepano. Any chance we could please have access to what you were doing with the keyboard navigation of files in Obsidian? Thank you

opening files in Obsidian, not sped up — ez

@nurijanian @kepano I use PARA. Links are the key structural synapses. Inbox are notes originated externally (Readwise, WebClipper) Neurons are my own notes Periodic are daily/weekly/... When I need to work on a project/area, I move the relevant notes into a PARA subfolder, which becomes my MOC

@kepano for someone who’s been a long-time Evernote user (PARA structure) who wants to move to Obsidian, what advice could you give me? What failure modes similar people like me get into that I could avoid?

This bit I wrote in my Obsidian explainer seems to confuse people who rely on folders for organizing notes: > "I use very few folders. I avoid folders because many of my entries belong to more than one area of thought. My system is oriented towards speed and laziness. I don’t want the overhead of having to consider where something should go." (caveat: the best system is the system that works for you — folders don't work for me, but they might work for you!) Much of my writing in @obsdmd is journaling that covers completely unrelated topics within a single note. My system is geared towards allowing me to create these intersections. I have ~15k notes. Trying to organize things by topic folders would be futile, so here's what I do: 1. I use wiki links liberally in sentences: people, places, concepts, book titles, etc. I often use unresolved links that go to notes that are not yet created. 2. I am consistent about my naming conventions, e.g. pluralization, acronyms, etc. 3. I add aliases to catch alternate spellings or names. The note I am looking for is almost always 1 or 2 steps removed from where I currently am in Obsidian. If I am looking for a specific note I can generally remember the name of the note or a related note/topic, so I can get to it easily from the quick switcher. If I can't remember the note by name, I find it through backlinks or via auto-generated index pages (e.g. by category, topic, or time period). I don't really use the search plugin to find individual notes, I use it while I am working on a project and want to find all mentions of a word/idea/phrase. This system is lazy in the sense that I don't have to spend time thinking about how my notes are organized, they organize themselves based on the internal links I create. What about tags? 5+ years ago I used tags, but now I mostly use links. Links work better for me because they take me to a note rather than a search. I like this Wikipedia-like flow better, because it keeps me in context of my notes.

@kepano @obsdmd I did. It's a good attempt, but it's buggy (if you pencil outside the ares, you add characters into the embed, and need to go back to keyboard to fix) and not exactly what I have in mind (limited space vs OneNote infinite board, like Canvas)

@alebyday @obsdmd did you try the Ink plugin?

what's one improvement you'd like to see in @obsdmd in 2025?

@kepano @_ericaxu @shida_li You all rock! @obsdmd has made me a much better knowledge worker, a better thinker, and - by helping me get thoughts out of my head - it has tremendously helped me out of a nervous breakdown. Can’t wait to see where you all will take it next!

I have been using Obsidian and developing for it since @_ericaxu and @shida_li first launched in 2020. I can't overstate how life-changing Obsidian has been for me. It has fundamentally improved the way I think. I want to see what happens if more people gain that superpower.

A bit of exciting news. I'm joining Obsidian (@obsdmd) full-time as CEO! ✨

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@ndoyle I’m clearly not the only one having this problem then ;)

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