Tidbit: open-source CLI that turns every capture into clean Obsidian notes and a ready-to-train JSONL dataset

After all the recent talk around using Obsidian as an LLM knowledge base, I built a small tool to make the capture step less painful.

Tidbit is a local open-source CLI that takes a URL, PDF, EPUB, image, clipboard content, or folder and turns it into:

• a clean Markdown note with YAML frontmatter for Obsidian
• a matching JSONL entry with the raw input + structured extraction

every capture gives you both a usable note and a dataset row you can reuse later for RAG, evals, or fine-tuning.

My workflow is basically: capture into inbox, review, then tidbit promote into the main vault.

No database, no background service, no lock-in. Just files.

Repo is here: Tidbit
Just pushed v0.1.1 today.

Would love feedback from people already using Obsidian this way:

• what’s still annoying about capture?
• what presets would you want?

If you try it, I’d love to hear how it fits into your vault.