No speedup. MacBook Pro 13, M1, 16GB, Ollama, orca-mini.
The plugin allows you to open a context menu on selected text to pick an AI-assistant's action.
The most casual AI-assistant for Obsidian.
Also works with images
No speedup. MacBook Pro 13, M1, 16GB, Ollama, bakllava.
Also it can use context from links, backlinks and even PDF files (RAG)
How to use (Ollama)
1. Install Embedding model:
- For English:
ollama pull nomic-embed-text
(fastest) - For other languages:
ollama pull bge-m3
(slower, but more accurate)
2. Select Embedding provider in plugin's settings and try to use the largest model with largest context window.
- Continue writing
- Summarize text
- Fix spelling and grammar
- Find action items in text
- General help (just use selected text as a prompt for any purpose)
- New System Prompt to create actions for your needs
You can also add yours, share the best actions or get one from the community.

This plugin is available in the Obsidian community plugin store https://obsidian.md/plugins?id=local-gpt
You can also install this plugin via BRAT: pfrankov/obsidian-local-gpt
You also need to install AI Providers plugin to configure AI providers from plugin store https://obsidian.md/plugins?id=ai-providers
Follow the instructions in AI Providers plugin.
- Open Obsidian Settings
- Go to Hotkeys
- Filter "Local" and you should see "Local GPT: Show context menu"
- Click on
+
icon and press hotkey (e.g.⌘ + M
)
- Colored Tags that colorizes tags in distinguishable colors.
- Obsidian AI Providers is a hub for AI providers.