obsidian-mind
Obsidian-mind is a self-organizing Obsidian vault that gives AI coding agents persistent memory across sessions for people who keep notes on work.
What it is good for
- Keeping an AI agent remembering goals, decisions, and past conversations
- Turning meeting notes and daily brain dumps into organized notes
- Tracking personal wins and performance notes over time
- Searching past notes by meaning instead of exact words
At a glance
- Who it is for
- Setup
- Guided command-line setup
Level 4 of 5. You copy and paste commands into a terminal by following the instructions. Comfortable territory for vibe coders.
- Cost
- Free and open source
- Type
- Agent app
- Tasks
- Works with
- Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Obsidian, QMD, ShardMind
Momentum
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- Best rank
- None yet
- GitHub stars
- 5,472
GitHub numbers as of Nov 2, 2026. Updated weekly.
Official links
Setup steps are on the official pages. We do not repeat them here, since they change.
Questions
- Is obsidian-mind free?
- Yes. It is free and open source (MIT license).
- Do I need to know how to code to use obsidian-mind?
- You do not need to write code, but setup means copying and pasting commands into a terminal by following its instructions.
- What does obsidian-mind work with?
- According to its own documentation, it works with Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Obsidian, QMD, and ShardMind.
- What is obsidian-mind good for?
- Keeping an AI agent remembering goals, decisions, and past conversations, turning meeting notes and daily brain dumps into organized notes, tracking personal wins and performance notes over time, and searching past notes by meaning instead of exact words.
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