Nexus-JPF/note-companion

Note Companion: AI assistant for Obsidian that goes beyond just a chat. (prev File Organizer 2000)

What it solves

Note Companion helps users transform messy, unprocessed captures—such as audio recordings, YouTube videos, and raw notes—into organized, searchable, and structured knowledge within Obsidian. It eliminates the manual effort of transcribing media and manually tagging or filing notes into folders.

How it works

It functions as an Obsidian plugin that connects to either a managed cloud service or a self-hosted backend. The backend handles the heavy lifting of AI processing using providers like OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Groq, or local models via Ollama. Users can paste YouTube links for transcription, record meetings directly in the app to generate action items, or use an "Inbox" folder where the AI suggests titles, tags, and folder placements for new notes.

Who it’s for

It is designed for researchers, students, and professionals with meeting-heavy workflows who maintain a digital vault in Obsidian and need a way to automate the ingestion and organization of diverse information sources.

Highlights

  • Media Transcription: Converts YouTube videos and audio/video files into text transcripts and summaries.
  • Vault-Aware Chat: Allows users to chat with their notes using @mentions to provide specific context from files, folders, or tags.
  • Automated Organization: Suggests or automatically applies formatting, titles, tags, and folder locations for notes in a designated Inbox.
  • Meeting Enhancement: Records audio and automatically generates transcripts, discussion points, and action items.
  • Flexible Deployment: Supports a paid cloud service, a self-hosted Docker backend with bring-your-own-keys (BYOK), or experimental local LLM integration via Ollama.

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