The Obsidian Search Handbook
A 254-page ebook (PDF, plus EPUB) on finding any note in Obsidian, from note design and built-in search to the terminal and AI search. Book edition, or Complete edition with a starter pack and worksheets.
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RAWmakase
RAWmakase is a free and open source RAW photo developer for Linux, macOS and Windows. It's written in Rust and released under the MIT License. The name is RAW + omakase (pronounced "raw-muh-KAH-say"). Piotr Chmolowski (`pch` on GitHub) builds it and describes it as a personal project in active devel
REA (Reverse Engineer Anything)
REA (Reverse Engineer Anything) is an Open Source toolkit that lets AI Agents reverse engineer software: native binaries, Electron and JavaScript apps, Android APKs, .NET assemblies, websites and quite a bit more. It ships as a Model Context Protocol (MCP)) server plus a CLI, written in TypeScript a
Mistral Large 4
Mistral Large 4 (ML4, or "le Chonk" as Mistral AI calls it in its own announcement) is Mistral's new flagship: a 1 trillion parameter, natively multimodal mixture-of-experts) model. The public preview opened on 6 October 2026 through the Mistral API and Mistral Studio. The open weights followed at t
Prism plugin for Obsidian
Prism is an Obsidian community plugin that renders interactive charts, diagrams, dashboards and formulas from ` viz ` block in a note 2. It runs `node .obsidian/plugins/prism-viz/scripts/prism-render.mjs "Books.md"` 3. The note renders invisibly in the running Obsidian app 4. The script prints JSON
Heretic (AI)
Heretic is an open source command-line tool that removes refusal behavior from transformer-based Large Language Models (LLMs)). Its README calls that behavior "censorship (aka 'safety alignment')". You give it a model, and it gives you back a copy that answers most of the prompts the original refuse
Encoding specificity principle
The encoding specificity principle says that you retrieve a memory best when the cues available at retrieval match the cues that were present when the memory was encoded. Endel Tulving and Donald Thomson formulated it in 1973. When you store something, you never store it alone: it gets stored togeth
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Why You Can't Find Your Notes - The Science of Re-finding Information
People navigate first and search as a last resort, and they re-find notes through the cues they stored when they wrote them. Here's the research behind that, and the three models I use to design a findable vault.
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The Obsidian Search Handbook Is Out, and Its Ideas Are Free
My new ebook on finding any note in Obsidian is out. All of its text is free on this blog over the next two and a half weeks; the book gives you all of it today, in one book, with a foreword, exercises, a merged FAQ and a cheat sheet appendix.
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The Complete Guide to Obsidian Search - Find Any Note When You Need It
Most searches in your vault are re-finding searches; you wrote the note, now you want it back. This overview tells you which tool to reach for, compares them all, and points to the 12 parts that go deep. Based on a 30,000-note vault.
Productivity
Sort your work by what it is and your lists will stop lying
A single to-do list can't tell an idea from a commitment, or a project from work that never ends. Sorting your work into ideas, goals, plans, projects, activities and tasks fixes that.
Tools
My 5,000-movie Kanban board in Obsidian now opens in under 3 seconds
My movie board in Obsidian has 4,888 cards and took 9 seconds to open. With the Kanban Action Planner 2.5.0, it opens in under 3, cards stay where I drop them, and every board can have its own covers, shapes, card colors and accents.