1 Obsidian AI Plugin You Need: Smart Connections
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2024
- Here's how I'm using AI with my Obsidian to connect notes and ideas!
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00:00 - Let AI find connected notes for you
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04:45 - How to set up Smart Connections
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Vicky! Thanks for keeping Obsidian updated!
Thanks Vicky. This is absolutely astonishing. Do you think this makes manual linking unnecessary or is that one of the inputs that feeds this plugin? One of the things I noticed is that it makes a meal of daily notes - if I happened to reference unrelated topics in a daily note, now, suddenly they are related.
Hello, thanks for the video. And if I ask a question and I don't tag any pages, it will send OpenAI all of them and base its answers on all my notes? Or do I always have to label the ones I want to send AI?
Thanks for sharing, Vicky. I’m very interested to try this out and appreciate the demonstration.
Can anybody tell me what theme this is? How do I get those colorful hashtags?
I am definitely trying this plugin out. I like how it is not invasive with the contents of the current note which is something I found with other AI plugins.
That's what I found too!! Give it a try and let me know how you like it
What if u have files in 2 different languages???
Does it tell you why it suggests the percentage that it does? What is it taking into consideration to rate one connection as a different percentage to another? I just tried using it and can't for the life of me see why it is recommending these other notes.
THIS is one of the most important aspects in using AI.
"Justify your reasoning!" They don't seem to be able to do that yet, but it'll be a game changer!
I cannot seem to get the API working. I've had to upgrade, but I'm still getting the "API is not working" message :(
Nice
Can you tell us what you think about remarkable 2
I have and use one for all client notes, business meetings, group coachings. It's great but the implementation with other things isn't that exciting. text recognition is sub-par in my opinion (or it's my handwriting), but it's a great tool. I don't use physical note books at the moment except when I want to go without a device and need a smaller notebook. feel free to ask me anything
It's a fantastic plugin - I've asked the plugin to find surprising insights in my notes between 3 seemingly unrelated topics and it does not dissapoint!
Yeeeees!! Love hearing that. What's the insight it revealed?
The zettelkasten method seems very interesting but would it be useful for someone who want to become an artist (mainly traditional painting but a little bit of digital art as well)?
I think it’s extremely helpful for managing inspiration and reference material
Yes! I'm currently putting together a video on zettelkasten and creativity. My perspective is that our entire lives are what we pay attention to, and zettelkasten is a way of organizing observed knowledge, so better and more accessible organization means easier access to artist connections and projects. I try to use my zettelkasten for a lot of questions. Since I'm a composer, I use a rastrum to draw music lines on my index cards (or if I'm using digital I take a screenshot of the music notation software I'm using and put it in obsidian) and save ideas that way. I think it's a great way develop creative habits. Don't be afraid to make seemingly useless fleeting notes into permanent notes; you never know what a project might take inspiration from.
I do not understand how to properly use this. It appears extremely conveluted to me. I've only had it being able to properly use a system prompt 1 time. After that it immediately became unable to do it again. I can't use it to access notes or anything else pretty much. I am able to chat, that's it. I'm not using ChatGPT as I don't trust the company, but trying to use OpenRouter.
This is what I'm trying to do: I'm trying to use the System Prompt function that I have had work just once in order to run a simulated chat with an onboard AI machine in Barotrauma. But though I've named the prompt properly, and the plugin explicitly tells you to use @ to access system prompts it has never worked. Not once. For now I can do a workaround with "Based on my notes" but that doesn't cover long as it doesn't recall our conversation and I'll have to "reactivate it" forever.
I feel like I'm doing something wrong, please help.
Where is obsidian - store or?
also Zettelkasten
Excellent content. Thank you!
Thanks, Vicky. I really like this plug-in and have been using it for a while. The embeddings mapping from text to multidimensional vectors into the LLM look to be part of the ChatGPT4 code interpreter and Claude2 text upload techniques. Let's hope it gets rolled out to the more powerful models. For many decades I've seen commercial software (and my own code) underutilise the available hardware. Is this the first time in history that the speed of software complexity growth and its usage have outstripped the available processing?
Good to see you! Wonder if we have other developers here pondering the fundamental changes that'll start to happen?
@@VickyZhaoBEEAMP I would hope there are other developers here who are using Copilot in VS Code. I haven't done commercial coding for years. If AI takes over the lower-level coding tasks, how will the boss developers get experience? It will be academics only!
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
00:00 🧠 *The Smart Connections plugin for Obsidian enhances the thinking process by better connecting notes in the user's vault.*
00:29 📘 *The plugin is inspired by the human brain's power, emphasizing the importance of connections over substances for generating ideas.*
01:11 🤔 *Highlights the plugin's ability to suggest highly relevant notes for enhancing creativity and insight through connections.*
02:02 🌐 *Demonstrates the plugin surfacing unexpected connections, like the chemical properties of water, to inspire new insights.*
03:09 🚀 *Explores the plugin's role in facilitating cross-disciplinary thinking and innovation by surfacing forgotten notes.*
03:39 🔍 *Shows how to use Smart Connections to find links to specific parts of a note, enhancing focus on relevant connections.*
04:07 💬 *Introduces a chat feature within the plugin that operates like ChatGPT but leverages the user's notes for personalized responses.*
04:52 ⚙️ *Provides a step-by-step guide on installing Smart Connections and configuring it with an OpenAI API key.*
06:00 💸 *Discusses the plugin's cost-effectiveness, highlighting the pricing model and how to manage expenses with usage limits.*
07:10 📲 *Offers customization options for the plugin, including language model selection and file or folder exclusions for privacy.*
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Very nice videos from your channel. What plugin do you use to change the text collors? like tags and others
Oh! That’s great. But all my obsidian is in Portuguese, not suitable yet.
But not sure if I want Chat gpt crawling within my notes…
Same thing here
Fair point - we always have to find a balance that works for us
Chat gpt is not crawling your notes. With his plugin you use gpt apis, so the data is not used for train open AI's models. So your notes are privacy and safe.
@@nelsonpires9709i wish i could go back to being that naive again
Great video! Thanks for sharing Smart Connections 🌴 😊
Excellent tutorial-personally I would need to consider purging my notes of journal entries and morning pages before allowing ai access. Anyone else thinking through this now?
It seems that you can specify in the plugin folders and specific files to exclude
@@jeandanslalune very interesting, thanks
Yesss!! You can exclude files and folders
Isn't this giving Chatgpt/OpenAI (and thus the Internet) access and storage of all your personal or private data?
YES IT IS!
No you don't. You're using gpt apis, so the data is not used to train the open AI's models. And the embeddings that you made stay save in a .json file inside your vault
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Your other point is right, with chemistry, things change properties.
Water isn't one of the most heaviest substances, Water is a combo of atoms, there is nothing more basic than an atom. The heaviest atoms are the metals. And the heaviest is iridium/Osmium. Everything else in the world can be changed and broken down to an atom, an atom cannot be changed or broken down.
This is an excellent plugin! I made a video about how I use this as well, but I use it in combination with the Copilot plugin which for chatting on a specific note, or using stored prompts and general non-note related questions, provides a better experience.
One thing I always found frustrating about these second-brain type tools was having to organize and relate everything together. Now smartconnections does that for me!
I have watched your video before stumble across this one, you did a great job explaining it. Subscribed! One question though, does smart connection work with other languages?
Yes, it does!@@MereVariation
you are very wrong about your water assumptions but the video is very good! I'll need to check that plugin!
Great video Vicky; I always enjoy your content. I think a discussion of the privacy implications of Smart Connections is probably warranted off the top. It wasn't initially clear that a user may want to exclude sensitive files from the plugin.
I'm sure this won't be a popular opinion but people write very personal notes in their vaults and once these are siphoned up by Big Tech, it can never be reversed.
I think it's pretty baffling how people integrate tools like this into their private life and even business matters without much thought on the privacy implications. I mainly say that because I think the risk is too great allowing a tool like this the ability to scan all your notes at once, even with the ability to exclude folders. I understand the convenience factor, but again too many risks. We need privacy preserving options.
Yeah, I cannot use this tool at all because it utilizes OpenAI. Not only would I be in breach of the terms of my employmer's NDA, I just plain do not trust OpenAI. If this were a pre-trained model running locally, it would be a different story.
Who else is using AI with their smart notetaking?
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That’s a great plugin tool Vicky. Thanks for showing how to get and use it
Heyyyy!! Good to see you here :)
Uff, the hydrogen and oxygen analogy is just... Wrong.
Water is not an element, and that it can soak and drag and add weight that way. Yes, water has weight, but it is nowhere neat the 'heaviest'.
😆 fair point
Yes, this inadvertently demonstrates why you have to be very very careful with AI output. Hallucinatory pseudoscience at its worst.
Oxygen occurs naturally as 02 with atomic weight of 32, Hydrogen is only 1. A molecule of water weighs 18 atomic mass units. What actually happen is two gaseous elements oxidize to form a new compound, a water molecule, which because of the difference in phase (liquid not gas) has an increased density. So a liter of H2O weighs much more than a liter of O2 at room temperature and 1 atmosphere pressure.
Just do a quick double check in your head when you see answers like this. As a thought experiment fill a bath with water and go around your house dropping things in it. Most of what you throw in would sink, proving that the density of most of our everyday objects is greater that water (or heavier as AI puts it).
Thank you though for an important demonstration. AI can be a really useful tool, but only if it augments our critical faculties and does not replace them.
Here's a better example of the transformative power of chemistry. If you took a body and put it in a warm bath of of sodium hydroxide then one of hydrochloric acid you could dissolve all the flesh and bones in a few hours. But if you mixed those two baths of hydrochloric acid and sodium hydroxide together, you would get salt and water and a very nice warm spa treatment you could float around in very comfortably for as long as you wanted.
yeah let's not give all our information to one company for free
yep something to consider!!
It utterly kills obsidian - makes it useless
What, how, why?
Thanks for the video. The plugin is really good. But I'm concerned about the privacy issue.
Very important topic to discuss in the broader AI context too
Same here. I wouldn't want the AI (this particular one that is "on the cloud" and accessible to everyone) being trained with my personal private thoughts and sensitive business data and information.
I think I'll wait for a bit: these models are rapidly becoming local and open source, so I wouldn't be surprised if this will be possible in a matter of a few months with a local solution (that doesn't involve sending all our data through the internet and helping train some company's AI) if you have a decent computer that can run such models and do the training.
I guess it all depends on what type of data you work with, and how much you care about its privacy. Also how much you're willing to be fiddling with such technology and deal with it yourself or let some external company do it for you.
That said, this is AMAZING - it's basically the main feature of MemX taken to Obsidian!
@@BlendtutsESI have the same thoughts, very important to think about! As for OpenAI's API they state nothing is used for training and one has to opt in for training. Using their services like ChatGPT one has to opt out of training.
@@christiank9447 Yes, I've seen those terms. Unfortunately, given the way they trained the models without any care for copyright or consent (even the notion that you have to opt out by default is preposterous), basically scrapping the entire internet, makes it difficult for me to trust that they are not somehow using that data for some purpose or technology we may not even know about yet. That's why even though I use ChatGPT occasionally (and I also use the Text Generator plugin for Obsidian), I'm less comfortable trusting OpenAI with a bunch of sensitive data.
That said, I've seen that you can choose which folders to upload for the training, so it may be interesting to isolate the most sensitive data and use the AI with the rest of the vault.
But I'll be more interested in local solutions that are starting to pop up that don't require to upload a bunch of data - not only because of OpenAI or having data floating "on the cloud", but because I would prefer to not have to rely on having Internet access to be able to use the features.
Nevertheless, while I'm concerned about the privacy and the use of our data... this whole thing is amazing, and years ago I couldn't even think this would be possible so soon. Love it!
Your channel has no patterns in your uploads for growth for new subscribers. Thus would discorages new viewers I feel, I like a lot of the creative content you put out. But in terms of knowing how to help out newcomers its really just stagnet. And your focused based on your progress alone in particular projects vs working with your community it seems or helping new subscribers.
Thats what I kind of got from your channel as I understood a lot of the video's and the way you think. I hope your able to help others more and learn how to not sale so much in your video's. This is small constructive criticism and hope you take this well.
Things you could do better ?
-Upload more
-Personalize your videos
-Explain why you saying what your saying
-The Benefits to XYZ
-Resive old content to stay up to date with updates,services and new changes.
-Review the changes and explain why or your thoughts of why.
Im sorry i just didn't feel connected to it as a human being and I understand a lot of things. Obsidian is really good and am able to fly on it, but how you linguistically explain things seems entirely too complex to others that didn't understand i feel. There are easier approaches i feel to expand for others to comprehend more.
Just a thought and a little feedback - good day !
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