Obsidian + Local AI for Note Organization

Obsidian vaults as agent memory with MCP/Gemma for daily notes and knowledge graphs. Recent developments include Hermes Obsidian integration tutorial, Fabric + local LLM + Obsidian guide, AI Wiki plugin, Local LLM Hub plugin (7k downloads), Graphify, LLM Wiki pattern, Off Grid AI Desktop, Superpower Inside plugin, note.md, Obsidian CLI, Codex Usage, Promptbox, Vault Operator, AI Co-Editor, ContextOS, Neural Composer. Latest: Writing Assistant Chat Obsidian plugin (81 downloads) adds local AI writing assistant with LM Studio/Claude Code, RAG, knowledge graph, agent tools, and approval workflow. New: Local Dictation Obsidian plugin (892 downloads) for local speech-to-text and text-to-speech using Whisper and Ollama, complementing existing plugins. A new offline productivity setup article (Obsidian + Ollama + Paperless-ngx) reinforces the harness-first approach for independence. Latest addition: Transcriber Obsidian plugin uses local Ollama vision models to transcribe images to structured Markdown, batch processing, fully private.