Did you miss the "flexible" part of your quote? Obsidian's value proposition is not simply "private". It does a lot more than that.
Personally, I'm interested in this sort of functionality because I would like my notes to be densely cross-referenced whenever possible, automatically and intelligently.
> isn't this antithetical to the spirit of obsidian?
I think so, yeah. Kepano (CEO of Obsidian, the company) has stated that they're waiting for the technology to progress to where models can be run locally.
But I think we are there for most tasks. I thought a bit about this today and wrote a blog post about how to use a local ai tool, Ollama, to summarize, make links, and ask questions about my notes. It’s not a fully fleshed out plugin but shows the start in about 20 or so lines of typescript.
tossing one's private notes to openai seems odd for such a tool that is marketed this way:
> Obsidian is the private and flexible writing app that adapts to the way you think.
> Obsidian stores notes on your device, so you can access them quickly, even offline. No one else can read them, not even us.