Finding ideas in Obsidian
I had (too) many notes of all kinds in my obsidian vaults (on Mac). I wanted to find ideas that I had jotted down across those notes. Finding ideas in my notes at scale requires AI, but I did not want to send my private notes to some hosted AI. So, I built ahai - a Mac app - 100% local and private, uses local models, to find and surface ideas across markdown files.
https://i.redd.it/lwaoa3us3n4g1.gif
I semi vibe coded this app in 10 days using Claude Code and Pyside 6.
It's a paid app, $29 suggested, minimum $19. Here is the app home page.
Ahai extracted 1500 ideas from over 13k markdown files in Obsidian and my code project readmes completely on my machine.
See https://ahai.app for details.
Would love your take, feedback, questions, comments.
Posted Dec 1, 2025, 7:00 PM UTC