5 Steps to supercharge Your Obsidian Vault with GenAI using a local Copilot Setup

Turn your local notes into an interactive knowledge base with these easy steps.

Welcome to this step-by-step guide for setting up Obsidian, Copilot, and Local RAG (retrieval augmented generation) using Ollama. This tutorial will walk you through the process of integrating these powerful tools into your Obsidian note-taking experience to enhance productivity and creativity.

When I started adding my first notes to Obsidian, I never could have imagined that one day I would be able to chat with my notes! Thanks to generative AI, this is now a possibility.

I wrote this step by step tutorial, mainly for myself in case I forget the commands, but maybe it also helps you!

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I assume you already are familiar with Obsidian and know how to use a terminal. You are probably using a Mac as well. If this is not you, feel free to read along, but you might need more time and searching the Internet to figure things out.

Step 1: Install Obsidian

First, make sure you have Obsidian installed on your computer. Yo…