Vault Curate

Vault Curate is a plugin for Obsidian that adds semantic search and connection finding to a personal notes vault. It is published through the Obsidian community plugin directory by its developer, Jacob Mei, and is described as a local first second brain tool that works on desktop and mobile. The plugin does four things. Find is semantic search that locates notes by meaning rather than exact keywords and shows the passage that matched, running keyword and semantic searches together and merging them into one ranking. Connect draws related notes that were never linked onto an Obsidian Canvas as a relation graph. Rediscover brings back notes that have not been touched in a long time, tracking hot and cold use. AI curation is optional and off by default; it writes descriptions and tags and groups results into topic tables of contents. Privacy is a central design point. By default nothing leaves the user's machine: a model of about 110 MB downloads once and runs on the device, using WebGPU where available, and no API key is needed. Data is sent out only if the user points the AI curation feature at a cloud service. Chinese and other CJK text is a stated strength, and users can switch to Ollama or any OpenAI compatible service for other languages. Every suggested connection waits for the user to accept or dismiss it, and an index built on desktop can be synced to a phone. The directory page lists no price, and the plugin is installed through Obsidian.