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Obsidian projects on GitHub

Markdown-based note-taking app and its plugin ecosystem

As of , the most-starred Obsidian projects on GitHub are joplin (56.8K stars), obsidian-skills (49.7K stars) and openhuman (42.2K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 44 Obsidian repositories with 484.4K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 18 was vibe-coding-toolkit, with +134 stars in a day.

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 18

+134

vibe-coding-toolkit

soumatheusgomes/vibe-coding-toolkit · ★ 1.7K

A curated, battle-tested AI-coding workflow for Claude Code (and partly Codex): ready-to-copy plugins, subagent orchestration patterns, quality-gate configs, and prompt templates extracted from a real production fintech codebase.

+77

harper

Automattic/harper · ★ 16.7K

Harper is an offline, privacy-first English grammar checker written in Rust that runs locally instead of sending your text to a server.

+75

patent-disclosure-skill

handsomestWei/patent-disclosure-skill · ★ 11.9K

An AI-agent skill for Chinese patents: it mines patentable points from your project materials and writes disclosure documents (invention / utility-model / design), rewrites disclosures into application files, runs bibliographic search, explains published patents in plain language, and helps draft examination responses.

+54

obsidian-skills

kepano/obsidian-skills · ★ 49.7K

This is a set of Agent Skills for Obsidian that teaches AI coding agents (like Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode) how to work with Obsidian's Markdown, Bases, and JSON Canvas files, plus the Obsidian CLI.

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44 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · laurent22/joplin

    joplin

    Joplin is an open source note taking and to-do application, built to handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks.

    56.8K
  2. #2 · kepano/obsidian-skills

    obsidian-skills

    This is a set of Agent Skills for Obsidian that teaches AI coding agents (like Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode) how to work with Obsidian's Markdown, Bases, and JSON Canvas files, plus the Obsidian CLI.

    49.7K
  3. #3 · tinyhumansai/openhuman

    openhuman

    OpenHuman is a local-first personal AI system that combines a persistent memory of your data, an orchestrator that runs agent fleets on durable graphs, and a deep researcher that sweeps your files and the web for you. It is written in Rust and ships as a desktop app.

    42.2K
  1. 4

    khoj

    37.7Kkhoj-ai/khoj · Python

    Khoj is an open-source personal AI — a 'second brain' that answers your questions from the web and your own documents, runs custom agents for you, and works with any online or local LLM.

  2. 5

    PDFMathTranslate

    37.7KPDFMathTranslate/PDFMathTranslate · Python

    It translates scientific PDF papers into other languages while preserving the original layout - formulas, charts, table of contents and annotations stay in place. It was accepted as a demo at EMNLP 2025.

  3. 6

    PicGo

    27.4KMolunerfinn/PicGo · TypeScript

    A free, open-source desktop image uploader: drag, paste or hotkey an image, PicGo uploads it to your image host (GitHub, Imgur, Aliyun OSS and 60+ others) and automatically copies the link — built for people writing blogs, notes and docs.

  4. 7

    obsidian-releases

    22.4Kobsidianmd/obsidian-releases

    This is the official Obsidian releases repo: it hosts public releases of the app plus the community plugins and themes directories that power the in-app plugin and theme browser.

  5. 8

    llm_wiki

    20.8Knashsu/llm_wiki · TypeScript

    LLM Wiki is a cross-platform desktop app that turns your documents into a persistent, interlinked knowledge base. Instead of re-deriving answers from scratch every time like traditional RAG, the LLM incrementally builds and keeps a wiki of your sources up to date.

  6. 9

    foam

    17.5Kfoambubble/foam · TypeScript

    Foam is a personal knowledge management and note-taking system built on top of Visual Studio Code and GitHub, letting you link markdown notes together, visualize them as a graph, and optionally publish them to the web.

  7. 10

    harper

    16.7KAutomattic/harper · Rust

    Harper is an offline, privacy-first English grammar checker written in Rust that runs locally instead of sending your text to a server.

  8. 11

    claudian

    15.7KYishenTu/claudian · TypeScript

    Claudian is an Obsidian plugin that embeds AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Grok, Opencode, Pi) into your vault, turning the vault into the agent's working directory for file read/write, search, and bash commands.

  9. 12

    claude-obsidian

    15.6KAgriciDaniel/claude-obsidian · Python

    claude-obsidian is a local-first knowledge system that pairs Claude Code (or any compatible Agent Skills host) with Obsidian. It turns any source you drop in into linked, source-cited Markdown pages and answers questions grounded in the evidence already in your vault.

  10. 13

    quartz

    13.4Kjackyzha0/quartz · TypeScript

    Quartz is a static-site generator that turns Markdown notes into a fully functional website, designed especially for publishing digital gardens and interconnected notes.

  11. 14

    mind-map

    12.8Kwanglin2/mind-map · JavaScript

    SimpleMindMap (思绪思维导图) is a mind-map project with two parts: an open-source, framework-independent JavaScript mind-map library plus a web app, and a separate closed-source desktop client with plugins.

  12. 15

    obsidian-git

    12.1KVinzent03/obsidian-git · TypeScript

    Obsidian Git is a community plugin that brings Git version control right into Obsidian.md, letting you commit, pull, and push your vault changes from inside the app.

  13. 16

    patent-disclosure-skill

    11.9KhandsomestWei/patent-disclosure-skill · Python

    An AI-agent skill for Chinese patents: it mines patentable points from your project materials and writes disclosure documents (invention / utility-model / design), rewrites disclosures into application files, runs bibliographic search, explains published patents in plain language, and helps draft examination responses.

  14. 17

    plannotator

    9.5Kbacknotprop/plannotator · TypeScript

    Plannotator is a local, browser-based review surface for AI coding agents: when your agent proposes a plan, HTML, or finishes writing code, the work opens in your browser so you can annotate it and send feedback straight back to the agent.

  15. 18

    ljg-skills

    7.5Klijigang/ljg-skills · TypeScript

    This is the author's personal collection of custom skills for the Codex AI agent, covering tasks like reading, writing, concept breakdown, paper summarization, and even relationship analysis.

  16. 19

    Infographic

    7Kantvis/Infographic · TypeScript

    AntV Infographic is a declarative framework for generating and rendering infographics, built so AI can turn text descriptions into polished visual infographics rendered as SVG.

  17. 20

    claude-scholar

    5.8KGalaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar · Python

    Claude Scholar is a semi-automated research assistant for academic research and software development, built especially for computer science and AI researchers. It routes work through ideation, literature review, coding, experiments, reporting, and writing/publication, and plugs into Claude Code, Codex CLI, Kimi Code CLI, and OpenCode.

  18. 21

    obsidian-mind

    5.4Kbreferrari/obsidian-mind · TypeScript

    Obsidian Mind is a self-organizing Obsidian vault template that gives AI coding agents like Claude Code persistent memory: it stores notes, decisions, and context as markdown files so every session builds on the last instead of starting from zero.

  19. 22

    obsidian-second-brain

    4.8Keugeniughelbur/obsidian-second-brain · Python

    It's a skill/plugin that gives Claude Code and other CLI coding agents (Codex, Gemini, Grok Bot, and more) persistent, self-rewriting memory stored as plain markdown notes in your Obsidian vault, so you stop re-explaining your projects, decisions, and people every session.

  20. 23

    OpenKB

    4.8KVectifyAI/OpenKB · Python

    OpenKB is an open-source CLI system that compiles raw documents into a structured, interlinked wiki-style knowledge base using LLMs, so knowledge accumulates over time instead of being re-derived on every query.

  21. 24

    Hyper-Extract

    4.2Kyifanfeng97/Hyper-Extract · Python

    Hyper-Extract is a CLI tool that turns unstructured documents (PDFs, Word, text, etc.) into structured knowledge — chunk corpora, lists, graphs, hypergraphs, and spatio-temporal graphs — using LLMs, all from a single command.

  22. 25

    My-Brain-Is-Full-Crew

    3.9Kgnekt/My-Brain-Is-Full-Crew · Shell

    A crew of 8+ AI agents and 14 specialized skills that manages your Obsidian vault through chat: capturing notes, triaging your inbox, searching, transcribing meetings, and handling email and calendar, in whatever language you write.

  23. 26

    axton-obsidian-visual-skills

    3.7Kaxtonliu/axton-obsidian-visual-skills

    A Visual Skills Pack that gives Claude Code the ability to turn plain text into Obsidian Canvas, Excalidraw, and Mermaid diagrams on request.

  24. 27

    EnvoyMesh

    3.1Kallenpeng0705/EnvoyMesh · TypeScript

    EnvoyMesh is a decentralized peer-to-peer mesh for autonomous AI agents — a private social network you and your agent actually own, with chat, voice, files and AI that negotiates tasks on your behalf. No central server: your devices run the network.

  25. 28

    EverRoom

    3KNxcoreAI/EverRoom · TypeScript

    EverRoom is a local-first personal workspace that connects your files, conversations, meetings, and AI agents into project-based 'Context Rooms', so agents work from verified evidence and memory instead of a blank chat.

  26. 29

    vibe-coding-toolkit

    1.7Ksoumatheusgomes/vibe-coding-toolkit · JavaScript

    A curated, battle-tested AI-coding workflow for Claude Code (and partly Codex): ready-to-copy plugins, subagent orchestration patterns, quality-gate configs, and prompt templates extracted from a real production fintech codebase.

  27. 30

    WeChatBridge

    1.5Kfreestylefly/WeChatBridge · Swift

    WeChatBridge (微信流) is a native, lightweight macOS utility that forwards WeChat chat records to AI agents or archives them into Obsidian — fully local.

  28. 31

    chubbyskills

    1.3Kchubbyguan/chubbyskills · Python

    Chubby Skills is a set of 14 Agent Skills plus a CLI that ingest Chinese social content (Douyin, Bilibili, Xiaohongshu, WeChat public accounts, X, podcasts) and local documents into a personal Markdown knowledge base you can search, cite, and hand off to an AI agent.

  29. 32

    second-brain-os

    1.1Kundefined-ui/second-brain-os · HTML

    A knowledge base an AI agent builds and maintains for you, in plain markdown files you own: what you read, watch and save becomes linked wiki pages you can query. The repo holds the full guide, a starter vault, agent skills and scripts.

  30. 33

    xingcezhenti

    1.1KERRRC/xingcezhenti

    A Markdown archive of 515 real Chinese civil service exam papers (national and provincial 行测/aptitude test) from 2016 to 2026, totaling 58,890 questions with official answers and explanations.

  31. 34

    yaos

    1.1Kkavinsood/yaos · TypeScript

    YAOS is a real-time sync engine for Obsidian notes, powered by a Cloudflare Worker you deploy to your own account. Notes sync live across devices with CRDT merge semantics instead of conflicted-copy workflows.

  32. 35

    compass

    992AgriciDaniel/compass · JavaScript

    Compass is a complete Obsidian vault template that runs your life as a Life OS: nightly journaling questions, quarterly retreats, planning, habits, tasks, reading, writing, and an AI assistant — all plain Markdown.

  33. 36

    pickoo-your-favorites

    966KristenPan/pickoo-your-favorites · Python

    Pickoo! is a local-first AI favorites workbench where a connected agent automatically ingests links you paste or share (from Xiaohongshu, Douyin, Bilibili, WeChat, Xiaoyuzhou podcasts, web pages, NetEase Music) and files them into editable Markdown with a preserved evidence package.

  34. 37

    qiaomu-clipper

    362joeseesun/qiaomu-clipper · TypeScript

    Qiaomu Clipper is a Chrome extension that clips articles and videos into Obsidian, then lets you read, edit, highlight, and chat with AI about the saved content, including a synced player-plus-transcript view for YouTube and Bilibili videos.

  35. 38

    botmaker

    287techjanitor/botmaker · Python

    Botmaker is a skill plus SOUL profile for Hermes Agent whose only job is to mint other specialist bots. It enforces a strict loop — interview, a one-screen SOUL draft, human sign-off, scaffolding, certification in the child's own chat, and documentation in a vault — instead of just cloning a persona file.

  36. 39

    vault-graph

    268luke321/vault-graph · JavaScript

    Vault Graph is an Obsidian community plugin that draws your whole vault as a deterministic circular graph: every note is a dot, every top-level folder owns a wedge sized by its share of the vault, and notes fill rings from the centre (best-connected) out to the rim (leaves).

  37. 40

    qiaomu-book-reader-legacy

    241joeseesun/qiaomu-book-reader-legacy · CSS

    Qiaomu Book Reader is an Obsidian plugin that lets you read EPUB, FB2 and PDF books inside Obsidian, highlight and annotate text, ask AI questions in place, and have your notes link back to the original passage.

  38. 41

    awesome-justin-sun-ideas-to-ai-howto

    166wousp112/awesome-justin-sun-ideas-to-ai-howto

    This repo turns two interviews with Justin Sun (孙宇晨) into actionable AI material: 23 step-by-step tutorials matched to his ideas, plus an AI planning prompt, full timestamped transcripts, and mind maps.

  39. 42

    readingspace-mn

    151Awaker-OTE/readingspace-mn · JavaScript

    Reading Space MN is a reading workflow plugin for MarginNote 4 that brings AI explanation and Q&A, an in-app browser, audio read-aloud, and Obsidian export right next to your selections, excerpts, and mind-map cards.

  40. 43

    Life-Compass-Obsidian-CN

    150sunkeke-ai/Life-Compass-Obsidian-CN · JavaScript

    This is an unofficial Simplified Chinese localization of 'Compass', an Obsidian vault system ('Life OS') for managing journaling, goals, habits, tasks, projects, writing, reading and life reviews.

  41. 44

    echoes-vault-codex

    132psinetron/echoes-vault-codex · Python

    EchoesVault is a persistent memory plugin for Codex and a portable project-memory protocol for Codex, OpenCode, Claude, and other coding agents.

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