Obsidian Copilot
Obsidian plugin that wires Ollama / OpenAI into your notes. Inline chat, summarize, prompt-templates.
Editorial verdict: “Best Obsidian plugin for local LLM in your notes. Pair with Smart Connections for RAG.”
Compatibility at a glance
Which runtime + OS combos this app works against. Source of truth for "will it run on my setup?"
What it is
Obsidian Copilot is the plugin to pick if you keep your notes in Obsidian and want a local LLM wired directly into your writing flow. It bridges to Ollama or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so you can run a model like Llama 3.1 8B Q4_K_M on your own hardware and keep everything offline. Inline chat, selection summarization, and vault-wide search-and-ask all work without leaving your editor. Pair it with Smart Connections for RAG over your full note corpus. The catch: mobile use requires a reachable LAN endpoint, and the best vault-context features lean on Obsidian Sync or a self-hosted server.
✓ Strengths
- +Mature, frequent releases
- +Vault-wide context-aware features
- +Cross-platform with Obsidian
△ Caveats
- −Best features need Obsidian Sync or self-hosted endpoint
- −Mobile usage requires reachable LAN endpoint
About the Editor plugin category
Plugin for VS Code, JetBrains, Vim, etc.
Where to go from here
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What this app talks to: Ollama, vLLM, llama.cpp, MLX, LM Studio. The upstream layer.
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