AI Chat for Obsidian

A powerful Obsidian plugin with multi-provider AI support: Yandex AI Studio, Groq (free), OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, GigaChat (Sber).

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Features

• 💬 Chat panel — full chat in the sidebar with persistent history between sessions
• 🗄️ Vault search — AI finds relevant notes and answers based on them (RAG)
• 📅 Date-aware search — ask "what did I write on April 12th?" and AI uses note creation/modification dates
• 📄 Note context — add the current note to context with one click
• ✂️ Inline editing — select text → right-click → translate / shorten / improve / explain
• 🔄 Text replacement — after AI responds, it offers to replace the selected text in your note
• 📋 Sources — shows which notes AI used, with clickable links to open them
• 🔗 Clickable note references — note.md links in AI responses open directly in Obsidian
• 📱 Mobile support — adaptive layout for Obsidian Mobile
• 🎨 Dark/light theme — adapts automatically to your Obsidian theme
• 🌍 Bilingual UI — Russian and English interface based on your Obsidian language setting

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Supported Providers

Provider	Cost	Models
Groq	Free	Llama 3.3 70B, Mixtral 8x7B, Gemma 2
Yandex AI	Paid	YandexGPT Pro/Lite/32k, Llama
OpenAI	Paid	GPT-4o, GPT-4o mini, GPT-3.5
Anthropic	Paid	Claude Opus/Sonnet/Haiku
GigaChat	Paid	GigaChat, Plus, Pro, Max

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Installation

Via BRAT (recommended for beta testing)

1. Install the BRAT plugin from the Obsidian community catalog
2. BRAT → "Add Beta plugin" → logotipza/obsidian-ya-gpt
3. Enable the plugin in Settings → Community plugins

Manual installation

git clone https://github.com/logotipza/obsidian-ya-gpt.git
cd obsidian-ya-gpt
npm install
npm run build
cp main.js manifest.json styles.css /path/to/vault/.obsidian/plugins/obsidian-ya-gpt/

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API Key Setup

Groq — Free ⭐

1. Go to console.groq.com
2. Sign up (free, no credit card required)
3. API Keys → Create API Key
4. Paste the key in plugin settings

Yandex AI Studio

1. Go to console.yandex.cloud
2. Create a service account
3. IAM → API Keys → Create
4. Copy your Folder ID from the catalog URL
5. Paste both values in plugin settings

OpenAI

1. Go to platform.openai.com/api-keys
2. Create new secret key
3. Paste the key in plugin settings

Anthropic Claude

1. Go to console.anthropic.com
2. API Keys → Create Key
3. Paste the key in plugin settings

GigaChat (Sber)

1. Go to developers.sber.ru and sign in with Sber ID
2. Create a project and connect the GigaChat API
3. In the Authorization Data section, copy the Authorization Key
4. Paste the key in plugin settings

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Usage

Chat

• Click the 🤖 icon in the sidebar, or use Cmd+P → Open Ya GPT Chat
• Enter — send message, Shift+Enter — new line

Vault Search

• Click the 🗄️ button in the chat header (turns red when active)
• AI will find relevant notes and show them as clickable sources below its response
• Ask date-based questions: "What did I write about marketing in March?"

Inline Editing

1. Select text in any note
2. Right-click → Ya GPT section:
   • Translate — auto-detects language direction
   • Shorten — concise version preserving meaning
   • Improve text — style and readability
   • Explain — simple explanation
   • Ask... — your custom question
3. The response appears in the chat with a "Replace in note" button

Commands (Cmd+P)

Command	Description
Open Ya GPT Chat	Open the chat panel
Summarize current note	Brief AI summary
Improve selected text	Style improvement
Translate selected	Auto-translate

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Security

• API keys are stored locally in Obsidian's encrypted storage (data.json), never sent to third parties
• Requests go directly from your device to the chosen AI provider
• Chat history is stored locally in your device's localStorage only
• Vault data is sent only within your AI request context, and only when you explicitly enable Vault or Note Context mode
• The plugin collects no analytics and sends no data to external servers
• Source code is open and auditable: github.com/logotipza/obsidian-ya-gpt

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Development

npm run dev    # watch mode for development
npm run build  # production build

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License

MIT © logotipza