Top 23 Obsidian Open-Source Projects

1. obsidian-skills

   1 4 49,332 6.6

   Agent skills for Obsidian. Teach your agent to use Obsidian CLI and open formats including Markdown, Bases, JSON Canvas.

   

   Project mention: Obsidian + AI 2026: From a Pile of Notes to a Knowledge Base for AI Agents | dev.to | 2026-09-24

   git clone https://github.com/kepano/obsidian-skills.git mkdir -p /pfad/zur/vault/.claude/skills cp -r obsidian-skills/skills/* /pfad/zur/vault/.claude/skills/

2. AppSignal

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3. siyuan

   2 34 46,718 10.0 TypeScript

   An open-source, privacy-first, self-hosted knowledge workspace where humans and AI agents work together 开源、隐私优先、自托管的知识工作空间，让人与智能体在此协作

   

   Project mention: 15 merged IME fixes: the recurring ways Japanese typing breaks web apps | dev.to | 2026-10-06

   siyuan-note/siyuan #17988: agent session rename input.

4. khoj

   3 54 37,627 8.7 Python

   Your AI second brain. Self-hostable. Get answers from the web or your docs. Build custom agents, schedule automations, do deep research. Turn any online or local LLM into your personal, autonomous AI (gpt, claude, gemini, llama, qwen, mistral). Get started - free.

   

   Project mention: Self-Hosted Deep Research Systems: 12 Tools Compared | dev.to | 2026-09-25

   Khoj is developed as a self-hostable personal AI and "second brain." It combines local or cloud language models with web retrieval, personal documents, semantic search, custom agents, automations, and an experimental /research mode.

5. obsidian-releases

   4 1,760 22,245 10.0 JavaScript

   Community plugins list, theme list, and releases of Obsidian.

   

   Project mention: Take Your AI's Questions Out of the Terminal | dev.to | 2026-10-14

   This is a decision page. Claude Code wrote it after reading a project's notes, and it shows the detail a chat question leaves out. I answer it in Obsidian.

6. quartz

   5 43 13,364 9.5 TypeScript

   🌱 a fast, batteries-included static-site generator that transforms Markdown content into fully functional websites

   

   Project mention: The problem is not the AI code, but nobody knows anything anymore | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-09-28

   This page has been live long before AI appeared, I used Quartz [1] v3, now at v5. But added some features I like with AI, yes, but still keeping my beloved color theme and web style as I had it for a long, long time. The whole code for the second brain (ssp.sh/brain/*) is on GitHub, in case you want to check it [2], but you can also see the "Changelog" in the footer to see recent visual changes. But I'd be curious what makes you think it's AI-generated?

   [1] https://github.com/jackyzha0/quartz

7. obsidian-git

   6 93 12,101 9.0 TypeScript

   Integrate Git version control with automatic commit-and-sync and other advanced features in Obsidian.md

   

   Project mention: An Obsidian + Git workflow for solo developers | dev.to | 2026-09-29

   The community plugin Obsidian Git handles commits, pulls and pushes from inside Obsidian. After installing and enabling it:

8. awesome-obsidian

   7 4 9,436 4.0 CSS

   🕶️ Awesome stuff for Obsidian

   

9. SaaSHub

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10. zotero-better-notes

    8 12 8,312 8.8 TypeScript

    Everything about note management. All in Zotero.

    

11. obsidian-smart-connections

    9 27 5,494 9.4 JavaScript

    Find related notes and excerpts while writing. Your link building copilot displays relevant content in graph + list view. A local embedding model powers semantic search. Zero setup. No API key.

    

    Project mention: Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-08-03

    SmartConnections but heads up, Connections Pro asks $300/year, or, more for the plugin than for an LLM subscription, more than Microsoft Office for that matter.

    https://smartconnections.app

12. obsidian-minimal

    10 50 5,419 7.4 CSS

    A distraction-free and highly customizable theme for Obsidian.

    

    Project mention: The Obsidian setup behind the system | dev.to | 2026-03-01

    I use the Minimal theme with its companion settings plugin. The name is accurate. It strips back the visual chrome, improves typography, and keeps the focus on the content. I've turned off most of the optional visual styles and left it close to its defaults.

13. obsidian-clipper

    11 10 5,321 9.0 TypeScript

    Highlight and capture the web in your favorite browser. The official Web Clipper extension for Obsidian.

    

    Project mention: Ask HN: Any solution for bookmarks on various services? | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-10-09

    That is partially what I do! I don't favourite stuff at all really on HN/X/whatever. I use https://obsidian.md/clipper to download them straight into my vault.

    Then there is https://pi.dev/packages/pi-obsidian which I use to give an agent access to my vault for searching/organising tasks

14. hugo-theme-academic-cv

    12 4 5,077 8.1 Jupyter Notebook

    🎓 Academic portfolio that boosts citations. AI generates pages, you own as Markdown. BibTeX auto-import, Jupyter, LaTeX, slides, visual block editor — free to host forever. 学术主页，AI 生成，Markdown 拥有 👇

    

15. obsidian-second-brain

    13 2 4,742 9.7 Python

    Persistent memory for Claude Code and 6 other CLI agents, stored as plain markdown in your Obsidian vault. Stop re-explaining your projects, decisions and people every session. 45 commands: hybrid semantic search, self-rewriting notes, key-less web research, and scheduled agents that maintain the vault while you sleep.

    

    Project mention: A Vault That Rewrites Itself: obsidian-second-brain and the Karpathy LLM Wiki Pattern | dev.to | 2026-10-08

    Two tools most of us own ignore each other completely. An Obsidian vault with hundreds of notes nobody rereads. An AI agent in the terminal whose every session starts from zero, as if the past never happened. The obsidian-second-brain repository glues them together: 4.7k stars, MIT, authored by Eugeniu Ghelbur. The README's own formula: an evolution of Karpathy's LLM Wiki pattern, a vault that rewrites itself. Here's a review, plus why I read the whole thing with deja vu: my business CRM runs on the same pattern.

16. obsidian-sample-plugin

    14 9 4,557 4.6 TypeScript

    Template for Obsidian community plugins with build configuration and development best practices.

    

17. obsidian-kanban

    15 31 4,527 3.7 TypeScript

    Create markdown-backed Kanban boards in Obsidian.

    

18. basic-memory

    16 6 4,190 9.9 Python

    AI conversations that actually remember. Never re-explain your project to your AI again. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/tyvKNccgqN

    

    Project mention: Best MCP Memory Servers for Teams in 2026: Context Cloud vs mem0 vs Basic Memory vs claude-mem vs MemPalace | dev.to | 2026-05-28

    Basic Memory is the simplest option and that's its strength. It stores knowledge as markdown files that you can read, edit, and version control yourself. No database, no cloud, no dependencies beyond the CLI.

19. llm-wiki-agent

    17 5 3,615 8.4 Python

    A personal knowledge base that builds and maintains itself. Drop in sources — Claude (or Codex/Gemini) reads them, extracts knowledge, and maintains a persistent interlinked wiki. Works with Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI. No API key needed.

    

    Project mention: Show HN: Claude Soul – cross-session learning engine for Claude Code | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-18

    I'm really interested in trying this out. Currently, I'm using the standard Obsidian MD format for long-term memory (https://github.com/SamurAIGPT/llm-wiki-agent) and asking the agent to access the wiki at the start of the task and then record useful information at the end

20. NoteDiscovery

    18 1 2,829 9.6 JavaScript

    Your Self-Hosted Knowledge Base

    

    Project mention: Show HN: NoteDiscovery – Free Self-Hosted Alternative to Notion/Obsidian | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-11-11

    GitHub: https://github.com/gamosoft/NoteDiscovery

    Please bear in mind it's in VERY early stages so it doesn't get even close to what the excellent Obsidian can do, but for the time being it's more than enough to suit my personal needs, so depending on my availability I may be adding more features. ;-)

    I really hope you like it!

21. obsidian-spaced-repetition

    19 48 2,580 8.6 TypeScript

    Fight the forgetting curve by reviewing flashcards & entire notes on Obsidian

    

    Project mention: Turning YouTube Videos Into Obsidian Notes — and What Shipping the Plugin Taught Me | dev.to | 2026-09-13

    Plus a right-sidebar chat panel scoped to the note you're reading, and a command that turns the quiz into Spaced Repetition cards.

22. obsidian-latex-suite

    20 18 2,530 9.5 TypeScript

    Make typesetting LaTeX as fast as handwriting through snippets, text expansion, and editor enhancements

    

    Project mention: obsidian-latex-suite VS latex-autofill - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/obsidian-latex-suite | 2026-09-29

23. obsidian-style-settings

    21 15 2,529 4.9 TypeScript

    A dynamic user interface for adjusting theme, plugin, and snippet CSS variables within Obsidian

    

24. obsidian-border

    22 1 2,516 7.8 CSS

    A theme for obsidian.md

    

25. GitSync

    23 1 2,421 9.8 Dart

    Mobile Git client for syncing a repository between remote and a local directory (by ViscousPot)

    

    Project mention: Obsidian Sync now has a headless client | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-02-28

    > Or a dedicated app like GitSync

    Which gates "sync" behind an expensive "premium" paywall.

    It feels criminal to charge that much for the sync feature when it also can't possibly work, iOS actively does not want apps to run in the background, and does not offer a viable method for this libgit wrapper to execute libgit on, for example, a filesystem inotify event or write or whatever.

    https://github.com/ViscousPot/GitSync/issues/807#issuecommen...

    What do you know, people are observing it doesn't really work.

    > Apple's iOS has a pluggable Files system.

    Okay, excellent, maybe you can tell me how to do this.

    I have opened the builtin iOS notes app. It by default can sync notes with iCloud. I would like to have it store my notes in Git or Dropbox or anything else, and be able to also edit them on another machine and have the changes sync.

    I won't hold my breath on how to do this because like clearly things are not pluggable, the builtin iOS apps don't work with anything but iCloud and the filesystem is obviously not pluggable or generic.

26. SaaSHub

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