AI Briefing for Obsidian

An Obsidian plugin that automatically collects AI news from 14+ curated sources and generates weekly briefing notes using your choice of LLM provider.

Daily article collection runs in the background. Once a week, your chosen LLM curates the most important stories into a structured Obsidian note — grouped by category, scored by relevance, with an "Article of the Week" highlight.

Features

• 14 built-in AI news sources — RSS feeds and APIs covering research papers, industry news, and open-source projects
• Multi-provider LLM curation — Anthropic, OpenAI-compatible (OpenAI/Groq/OpenRouter/Mistral), Google Gemini, or Ollama (local)
• Free tier support — works with Groq, Mistral, and Gemini free tiers out of the box
• Preview before saving — review and edit the curated briefing in a modal before it becomes a note
• Automatic scheduling — daily collection + weekly digest generation, fully configurable
• Custom feeds — add your own RSS feeds alongside the built-in sources
• Category tagging — notes are auto-tagged (LLMs, Robotics, AI Policy, etc.) for Obsidian search and Dataview

Built-in Sources

RSS Feeds

Source	Description
MIT Technology Review AI	AI coverage from MIT Tech Review
The Batch	Andrew Ng's weekly AI newsletter
Google AI Blog	Research and product updates from Google
OpenAI Blog	Updates from OpenAI
Anthropic Research	Research publications from Anthropic
Import AI	Jack Clark's AI newsletter
The Gradient	Long-form AI/ML essays
Ahead of AI	Sebastian Raschka's newsletter
AI News	Industry AI news aggregator

API Sources

Source	Description
HuggingFace Daily Papers	Top-voted papers on HuggingFace
Hacker News (AI)	AI-filtered stories with 10+ points
ArXiv (cs.AI + cs.LG)	Latest AI and machine learning papers
Reddit r/MachineLearning	Top posts from the ML subreddit
GitHub Trending (AI/ML)	Trending AI/ML repositories

LLM Providers

Provider	Endpoint	Free Tier
Anthropic	Claude Haiku / Sonnet / Opus	No
OpenAI	GPT-4o, GPT-4o-mini	No
Groq	Llama 3.3 70B, Mixtral	Yes
OpenRouter	100+ models	Some
Mistral	Mistral Small, Codestral	Yes
Google Gemini	Gemini 2.0 Flash, 2.5 Pro	Yes (15 RPM)
Ollama	Any local model	Free (local)

The OpenAI-compatible provider works with any service that implements the OpenAI chat completions API. Preset endpoints are provided for popular services, or you can set a custom endpoint URL.

Installation

Manual Installation

1. Download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from the latest release
2. Create a folder: <your-vault>/.obsidian/plugins/ai-briefing/
3. Copy the three files into that folder
4. In Obsidian: Settings > Community plugins > disable Restricted mode > enable "AI Briefing"

Build from Source

git clone https://github.com/fredrsat/obsidian-ai-briefing.git
cd obsidian-ai-briefing
npm install
npm run build

Then copy main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css to your vault's plugin folder.

Setup

1. Open plugin settings (Settings > AI Briefing)
2. Select your LLM provider and enter your API key
3. Review the News Sources and toggle any you want to enable/disable
4. Optionally add custom RSS feeds
5. Configure scheduling (defaults: collect daily at 06:00, digest on Mondays at 07:00)
6. Set your preferred output folder and language (English or Norwegian)

Usage

Manual

• Command palette: AI Briefing: Collect articles now — fetches articles from all enabled sources
• Command palette: AI Briefing: Generate weekly digest — curates cached articles and opens the preview modal
• Settings: Use the "Collect Now" and "Generate Digest" buttons in the plugin settings

Automatic

When enabled, the plugin checks every 30 minutes:

• Daily collection — if the current hour is past the configured collection hour and articles haven't been collected today
• Weekly digest — if it's the configured day/hour and a digest hasn't been generated this week

Auto-run requires Obsidian to be open at the scheduled time.

Output Format

Each briefing is a Markdown note with:

• YAML frontmatter — date, week number, tags, article count
• Article of the Week — highlighted callout block
• Categorized sections — articles grouped by theme (LLMs, Computer Vision, Robotics, AI Policy, Tools & Frameworks, Research Papers, Industry News)
• Per-article info — title (linked), source, relevance score, LLM-written summary
• Reflections section — empty section for your own notes

Network Disclosure

This plugin makes outbound HTTPS requests to the following services:

News sources (article collection):

• RSS feeds: MIT Tech Review, deeplearning.ai, Google AI Blog, OpenAI Blog, Import AI, The Gradient, Ahead of AI, AI News, and a community-maintained Anthropic Research feed (via GitHub)
• APIs: HuggingFace (huggingface.co), Hacker News (hn.algolia.com), ArXiv (export.arxiv.org), Reddit (reddit.com), GitHub (api.github.com)

LLM providers (digest curation) — only the one you configure:

• Anthropic API (api.anthropic.com)
• OpenAI-compatible endpoints (api.openai.com, api.groq.com, openrouter.ai, api.mistral.ai, or custom)
• Google Gemini API (generativelanguage.googleapis.com)
• Ollama (localhost, no external network)

No data is sent to any service beyond what is needed for the configured features. No telemetry or analytics are collected.

Security

• API keys are stored in Obsidian's plugin data file (data.json) inside the .obsidian folder
• Keys are entered via password fields with autocomplete disabled
• No API keys or secrets are hardcoded in the source code
• All HTTP requests use Obsidian's requestUrl wrapper (HTTPS)
• External content (RSS, API responses) is sanitized before display

Recommendations:

• Do not sync your .obsidian/plugins/ folder to public cloud storage if it contains API keys
• Consider using free-tier providers (Groq, Gemini) if you want to avoid managing paid API keys
• Ollama requires no API key at all (runs locally)

Development

npm run dev    # Watch mode — rebuilds on file changes
npm run build  # Production build

The plugin follows Obsidian's single-file convention — all source code is in main.ts.

License

MIT