Vault Finder

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by CozeBoy

Fast full-text search for your vault with optional AI-enhanced keyword expansion and results. - This plugin has not been manually reviewed by Obsidian staff.

↓ 127 downloadsUpdated 1mo agoMIT
Install in ObsidianView on GitHub

Vault Finder

Fast full-text search for your Obsidian vault, with optional vector retrieval and AI-enhanced keyword expansion, relevance filtering, and result summarization.

中文说明

Features

  • Right-sidebar search panel with keyboard navigation
  • Local full-text index (MiniSearch) with automatic incremental updates
  • N-gram tokenization for mixed Chinese / English content
  • Optional vector search with a separate embeddings API and configurable cache folder
  • Match threshold slider, primary vs lower-match result sections, and exact-phrase priority
  • Search history tab with past queries and saved summaries
  • Right-click on AI summary to save as a note to any nested vault folder
  • Optional AI enhancement (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini): keyword expansion, relevance filter, Markdown article synthesis
  • Chinese / English UI

Network use

This plugin is desktop only and may contact external APIs only when you configure API keys.

Vector search (embeddings) — requests go to the embeddings URL you set (the default https://api.aicso.top/v1/embeddings is an example endpoint; replace it with your own provider). Each request may include truncated note text for indexing or your search query for retrieval. Uses a separate API key from AI chat.

AI chat — when AI enhancement is enabled, requests go to the chat Base URL you configure (default example: https://api.aicso.top/). Sent content is limited to your search query plus paths and truncated snippets of the top N hits — not full note bodies.

With AI and vector search disabled, or without API keys configured, the plugin performs local indexing and search only.

Installation

From GitHub Release

  1. Download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from the latest release.
  2. Copy them to .obsidian/plugins/vault-finder/
  3. Enable Vault Finder in Obsidian → Settings → Community plugins

Development

npm install
npm run dev
npm run build

Symlink or copy the project folder to .obsidian/plugins/vault-finder/ (folder name must match plugin id).

Commands

  • Open Vault Finder search — open the search panel in the right sidebar
  • Rebuild Vault Finder index — force a full keyword index rebuild

Settings

See the plugin settings tab for indexing, vector search, AI prompts, cache folders, and advanced options.

License

MIT — Copyright (c) 2026 CozeBoy

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