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Copilot for Obsidian is your best in‑vault AI assistant, designed to listen, act at the speed of thought, and keep you creating in flow—all within Obsidian’s integrated, tab‑free workspace.
Your AI assistant in Obsidian—powerful yet intuitive, keeping you in the creative flow.
🔌 Install Copilot in Community Plugins in Obsidian
🔑 Set Up Your AI Model (API Key)
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📖 Chat Mode: Summarize Specific Notes
🧠 Use When: You want to reference specific notes or folders, generate content, or talk through ideas with Copilot like a knowledgeable thought partner.
💭 In Chat mode, ask Copilot:
"Summarize [[Meeting Notes – March]] and create a follow-up task list based on notes in {projects}."
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📖 Vault QA Mode: Chat With Your Entire Vault
🧠 Use When: You want to search your vault for patterns, ideas, or facts without knowing exactly where the information is stored.
💭 In Vault QA mode, ask Copilot:
"What insights can I gather about the benefits of journaling from all of my notes?"
💡 Tip: Replace the benefits of journaling with any topic mentioned in your notes to get more precise results.
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📖 Edit and Apply with One Click
🧠 Use When: You want to quickly fix grammar, spelling or wording directly in your notes—without switching tabs or manually rewriting.
💭 Select the text and edit with one RIGHT click
💡 Tip: Set up and customize your right-click menu with common actions you use often, like "Summarize", "Simplify Language", or "Translate to Formal Tone"—so you can apply them effortlessly while you write.
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📖 Automate your workflow with the Copilot Prompt Palette
🧠 Use When: You want to speed up repetitive tasks like summarizing, rewriting, or translating without typing full prompts every time.
💭 Type / to use Prompt Palette
💡 Tip: Create shortcuts for your most-used actions—like "Translate to Spanish" or "Draft a blog post outline"—and trigger them instantly with typing / !
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📖 Stay in flow with the Relevant Notes
🧠 Use When: You're working on a note and want to pull in context or insights from related notes—without breaking your focus.
💭 Appears automatically when there's useful related content.
💡 Tip: Use it to quickly reference past research, ideas, or decisions—no need to search or switch tabs.
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Copilot Plus brings powerful AI agentic capabilities, context-aware actions and seamless tool integration—built to elevate your knowledge work in Obsidian.
🆙 Upgrade to Copilot Plus
First, go to https://www.obsidiancopilot.com/en to subscribe to Copilot Plus. Then, set up Copilot Plus License Key in Obsidian.
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📖 Get Precision Insights From a Specific Time Window
🧠 Use When: You want to quickly review tasks, notes, or ideas from a specific time range without manually digging through files.
💭 In Chat mode, ask Copilot:
"Give me a recap of everything I captured last week."
💡 Tip: Try variations like "Summarize my highlights from August 11 through August 22" for even more insights.
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📖 One Prompt, Every Source—Instant Summaries from PDFs, Videos, and Web
🧠 Use When: You want to combine information from multiple formats—documents, videos, web pages, and images—into one concise, actionable summary.
💭 In PLUS mode, ask Copilot:
"Please write a short intro of Kiwi birds based on the following information I collected about this animal.
@youtube Summarize https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ2jm_UPc6c&t=417s in a short paragraph.
@websearch where can I find Kiwi birds?
Summarize https://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/native-animals/birds/birds-a-z/kiwi/ in 300 words.“
🛠️ Add PDFs and Images as Context to Enrich Your Learning
💡 Tip: For large PDFs, reference specific sections to focus the AI's attention.
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If you're using the Vault QA mode (or the tool @vault in Plus), try the following:
Most likely this is happening because you haven’t configured billing with your chosen model provider—or you’ve hit your monthly quota. For example, OpenAI typically caps individual accounts at $120/month. To resolve:
If you’re using a different provider, please refer to their documentation and billing policies for the equivalent steps.
Why am I getting a token limit error?Please refer to your model provider’s documentation for the context window size.
⚠️ If you set a large max token limit in your Copilot settings, you may encounter this error.
🧠 Behind-the-scenes prompts for Copilot commands also consume tokens, so:
💡 For QA with unlimited context, switch to the Vault QA mode in the dropdown (Copilot v2.1.0+ required).
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Acknowledgments
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Copilot Plus is a premium product of Brevilabs LLC and it is not affiliated with Obsidian. It offers a powerful agentic AI integration into Obsidian. Please check out our website obsidiancopilot.com for more details!
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