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obsidian-smart-connections: Find notes with similar meanings

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This is an Obsidian plugin that helps you find notes with similar meanings when you can't locate something you wrote in the past because you have hundreds of notes.

3-Line Summary

1) This is a plugin for Obsidian (a note-taking app) that finds and displays notes with similar meanings to the one you’re currently writing. 2) Just install and enable it, and the built-in model will create a note index—no API key is required. 3) It’s especially useful when you have hundreds of notes, and Todd, a product planner, uses it daily to write about product knowledge.

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At a Glance

• 5,537 stars (as of November 4, 2026) • Languages used: JavaScript 95.4% (a language for building websites and apps), CSS 4.6% (a language for styling the user interface) • License: Smart Plugins License (a license that allows free use but prohibits the use of the core components in competing products for Obsidian) • Korean: Screen language cannot be verified; support for the multilingual embedding model (a model that converts text to numbers) `multilingual-e5-small` has been added • Last code change: October 10, 2026; Created: December 2022 https://github.com/brianpetro/obsidian-smart-connections

How to Use It

1) Find and install "Smart Connections" from the Obsidian Community Plugins, then enable it. 2) The built-in model automatically creates an index as you write notes. No separate app or API key is required. 3) Click the Connections icon on the left ribbon to open a list of related notes, then drag and drop the results onto a note to create a link.

Popular Comments

GitHub Issue #1269 · 11 reactions · jmiba · December 2025 "When working with multiple languages, the standard transformer-based embedding models available in updated plugins do not perform well enough. In my experience, EmbeddingGemma-300 has consistently produced good results on English and German notes…" (Translation) https://github.com/brianpetro/obsidian-smart-connections/issues/1269#issuecomment-3649387511

Points to Note

The feature that connects external and local AI models via API has been moved to Smart Chat Pro, and the Pro version is for patrons. I haven't been able to determine which model works best for Korean notes.

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