Sage

Select a term or passage and Sage uses the Anthropic API to generate a linked concept note in your vault. Useful for explaining technical research papers, or for going down a learning rabbit hole.

Requirements

• Obsidian 1.11.4 or later
• An Anthropic API key
• A markdown note in your vault

Setup

Open Settings → Sage and paste your Anthropic API key.

Note: When you explain a selection, Sage sends the selected text and up to 2000 characters (configurable) of surrounding context to the Anthropic API.

Caution: Your API key is kept in Obsidian's secret storage, which is currently not encrypted at rest: other programs on your computer could read it.

Usage

1. Select a word, phrase, or passage in a note.
2. Run Sage: Explain selection from the command palette, or right-click the selection and choose Explain selection.
3. Sage writes a concept note to your concepts folder and links your selection to it.

If a concept note with the same title already exists, Sage links to it instead of creating a duplicate.

Settings

• Concepts folder: where concept notes are created (vault root if blank).
• Selection style: how the original selection looks after linking (plain, highlighted, or a wikilink).
• Concept alias: display the link as "🌿" or the concept's title.
• Context length: total characters around the selection sent to the model as context.
• Model: which Anthropic model to use.
• Max tokens: upper bound on the response length.
• API key: your Anthropic API key, stored in Obsidian's secret storage.

License

Released under the MIT License.