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Vector Search for Obsidian

Semantic search for your notes using Ollama and nomic-embed-text embeddings. Requires Ollama installation.

Best For

researcherspower usersacademicswritersstudents

Key Use Cases

  • Finding notes by conceptual similarity
  • Connecting related ideas across vaults
  • Improving note retrieval beyond keyword matching

Pros

  • Fully local and private
  • Understands meaning, not just keywords
  • Free and open-source (Ollama)

Limitations

  • Requires Ollama setup and model download
  • Resource-intensive (needs good CPU/GPU)
  • Only works with local notes (no mobile sync)

Tags

semantic-searchollamaembeddingslocal-aivector-search

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