From de164a328932225bd40f703638d345198c0b6f48 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: svemagie <869694+svemagie@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:57:44 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] update article post

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 .../articles/memex-chat-obsidian-plugin.md    | 19 ++++++++-----------
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diff --git a/content/articles/memex-chat-obsidian-plugin.md b/content/articles/memex-chat-obsidian-plugin.md
index 2113eb1..eeec8b8 100644
--- a/content/articles/memex-chat-obsidian-plugin.md
+++ b/content/articles/memex-chat-obsidian-plugin.md
@@ -2,28 +2,26 @@
 date: 2026-03-09T11:04:48.857Z
 title: "Memex Chat: Obsidian Plugin I built for myself"
 deleted: 2026-03-13T05:59:16.621Z
-summary: I've been using Obsidian for years as my primary thinking environment. At some point I got tired of switching between my notes and AI tools, copy-pasting context back and forth. So I built something that works the way I actually think.
+summary: Memex Chat is an Obsidian plugin that lets you chat with your vault using Claude AI with proper context retrieval, not just keyword search.
 category:
   - dev
-  - AI
+  - on/memex
 mpSyndicateTo:
   - https://blog.giersig.eu/
 visibility: public
-updated: 2026-03-19T15:42:47.143Z
+updated: 2026-03-20T12:57:43.955Z
 mpUrl: https://blog.giersig.eu/articles/memex-chat-obsidian-plugin/
 permalink: /articles/memex-chat-obsidian-plugin/
 ai:
-  textLevel: "0"
+  textLevel: "1"
   codeLevel: "2"
   aiTools: "Claude, Copilot"
   # aiDescription: "Optional disclosure about how AI was used"
 ---
 
-Memex Chat is an Obsidian plugin that lets you chat with your vault using Claude AI with proper context retrieval, not just keyword search.
-
 What it does:
 
-- Semantic vault search — a TF-IDF index over all your notes, no external API needed for retrieval
+- Semantic vault search - a TF-IDF index over all your notes, no external API needed for retrieval
 - Local embeddings — optional on-device semantic search using BGE Micro v2, fully offline after one model download (~22 MB)
 - Auto context — relevant notes are automatically found and attached to your query before it even reaches Claude
 - @ mentions — reference specific notes directly in your message with autocomplete
@@ -31,8 +29,7 @@ What it does:
 - Related notes sidebar — always-on panel showing the most similar notes to whatever you have open, ranked by semantic similarity, frontmatter links, and shared tags
 - Thread history — chats saved as Markdown in your vault, so nothing disappears
 - Source links — every answer shows which notes were used as context
-- Prompt buttons — configurable header buttons that extend Claude's system prompt (e.g. draft check, monthly review)
+- Prompt buttons — configurable header buttons that extend Claude’s system prompt (e.g. draft check, monthly review)
+- Installation is manual for now — download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from the latest release, drop them into .obsidian/plugins/memex-chat/, enable in Community Plugins, and add your Anthropic API key.
 
-Installation is manual for now — download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from the latest release, drop them into .obsidian/plugins/memex-chat/, enable in Community Plugins, and add your Anthropic API key.
-
-→ https://github.com/svemagie/memex-chat
+→ https://github.com/svemagie/obsidian-memex-chat