🌴 Brian

The utility of the graph view is this. The post. User generated content. If you find something else lmk 🌴

Looks cool. What exactly am I looking at? 🌴

Smart Connections - The User-first Smart Ecosystem

I work on lots of scattered projects and have used @obsidian.md for all my thinking and notes for years now.

I just stumbled across smartconnections.app and *wow*. It's a local transformer model which finds connections with old notes and ideas as you type. Incredibly valuable for me at the moment.

ah sweet! i’m so glad someone has found something useful in the colophon! that’s what they’re all about ☺️

smart connections is great, it makes links to things i forgot i read, but that immediately brings back a memory of a thought as soon as i see the connection.

YouTube video by 🌴 Brian How I transcribe 1000 words/day from note cards to Obsidian in one-step

Just in case you don't want to be restricted to a single handwriting medium, I've been using ChatGPT to transcribe my handwriting and insert directly into Obsidian for well over a year now, the accuracy is >99% youtube.com/shorts/VjoN2...

Nice. Ad hoc plugin generation is definitely the way. A lot of times it's even faster than looking for potentially existing plugins and figuring out whether they actually do what you want 🌴

Plugins - Obsidian With thousands of plugins and our open API, it's easy to tailor Obsidian to fit your personal workflow.

Get Smart Context obsidian.md/plugins?id=s...

Context engineering in @obsidian.md with the Smart Context plugin 🌴

Hide connections in Obsidian.md Smart Connections 🌴

Plugins - Obsidian With thousands of plugins and our open API, it's easy to tailor Obsidian to fit your personal workflow.

Smart Connections -> obsidian.md/plugins?id=s... 🌴

It depends. Plugins are dependencies. And you should only depend on those you trust.

For a plugin you can trust, check out Smart Connections.

But don't take my word for it, the full bundled plugin is only ~1MB, so you can easily drop it in Gemini and have it do a security audit before install.
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Welcome to the club 🌴

We're back 🌴

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Note taking strategy 🌴

HTML+JS+CSS already exists. The historic layers of abstraction (previously necessary for human productivity) are already starting to peel away 🌴

Nice! I spin up lots of single-use plugins with AI. Soon the Smart Environment architecture will be sufficiently stable so that people can use AI to create their own Smart Plugins, without having to reinvent the wheel for all the underlying model wrappers and data stores, too 😊🌴

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You might be interested in this plugin for embedding/saving ChatGPT, Claude and other platforms chats directly in a note obsidian.md/plugins?id=s... 🌴

Best option doesn't mean perfect option. Hopefully they'll see this as an opportunity for an easy improvement 🌴

I was trying to explain @obsidian.md to my musician friend. He uses Google Docs.

To demonstrate, we exported a document in both markdown and Microsoft word formats.

Then we opened both in notepad, markdown first. "See, you can still read it."

Then the word file, he goes "hieroglyphics?!?"

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🤣 the threat must be real 🌴

There is no second brain without AI 🌴

Obsidian Bases is great, but it doesn't replace Dataview's advanced features.

Hopefully we'll see list/task level queries in Bases in the future 🌴

The new Smart Chat is now included in Smart Connections v3 @obsidian.md plugin 🌴

PE 👎👎
VC 👎
Bootstrapped 👍
User-funded 👍👍

Smart Connections v3 Bases integration makes it easy to insert the connections score column github.com/brianpetro/o... 🌴

Use @obsidian.md Bases + Smart Connections v3 to *Build Your Own Connections view* 🌴

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Exciting things are happening behind the scenes with the Smart Connections @obsidian.md plugin 😊🌴