Smart Connections (Obsidian)
Local semantic search across all your Obsidian notes. Embed-once, query-fast, fully offline.
Editorial verdict: “Best local semantic search for personal notes. Foundational layer for Obsidian 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
Smart Connections embeds every note in your Obsidian vault into a local vector index. Click any line, see semantically-similar passages from across your vault. Combine with Obsidian Copilot for full local RAG over your notes. Embedder runs locally; no cloud required.
✓ Strengths
- +Genuinely fast local semantic search
- +Embedding model + vector store all local
- +Great with vaults of 1000+ notes
△ Caveats
- −Initial embed of large vaults is slow
- −Some power features behind freemium gate
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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