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Obsidian QMD

Local semantic search for Obsidian.

Kind Obsidian plugins Language TypeScript License MIT ★ 3 stars updated Sep 2026

Bridges Obsidian with a local QMD daemon for fast, private semantic search: keyword, vector, hybrid, and advanced modes, a related-notes sidebar, and automatic re-indexing when notes change.

All processing runs on your machine. The plugin auto-detects the QMD binary on PATH, keeps a collection in sync with the vault, and answers from a daemon that is already warm.

The related-notes view stays open in the sidebar; the search modal finds notes by meaning and shows context snippets; results can be inserted into the active note as wikilinks.

This is the search layer behind the author's own vault and the one that answers agents' questions about it.

Installrelease

# Requires the qmd daemon: https://github.com/tobi/qmd
# Download main.js, manifest.json, styles.css from the latest release into
.obsidian/plugins/qmd/