What each plugin is for and how I use it. Human setup notes live in README, vault rules in private.
Enabled
- Smart Composer — AI chat with note context and one-click edits. Can edit files on phone, connects with your subscriptions. Also used to suggest links (as many as make sense — not one more).
- Smart Connections — AI link discovery: related notes appear while writing, semantic search across the vault. Local embeddings, no API keys, private.
- Excalidraw — used to think and represent at a greater level than a brain can track at once. Amazing, but should be specialized for mind maps. A project folder may have one drawing organizing everything.
- Folder Notes — every folder (project) gets a note under the same name that gives extra context on it, accessible without collapsing the folder. These are the entry points.
- Recent Files — lists files by most recently opened.
- Tasks — queries and aggregates checkboxes across the vault by due/recurring/done date, filtered into dynamic lists.
- Default Template — auto-applies a chosen template to new notes.
Core plugins worth noting
- Sync and Publish are on — Publish is what turns select pages into the website.
- Daily notes — daily journal, automation wanted (see private todo).
- Templates — reads from
Templates/. - Bases — database views, templates in
Templates/Bases.