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For those curious, this feature is just now publicly launching and before it was only available to people who paid for early access.

The Reddit thread has some good discussion about the feature

https://old.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/1mtxh52/obsidia...

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On a side note, the docs don't seem to mention if this is possible but does anyone know how to use a template or set a default frontmatter (like created date) when using the "new" button in a Base?

The solution I used before bases is eh... pretty hacky.

```meta-bind-js-view {memory^inputText} as title --- const toShow = context.bound.title || "TKTK"; const str = `\`\`\`meta-bind-button label: New Project Idea - ${toShow} icon: "" hidden: false class: "" tooltip: "" id: "" style: primary actions: - type: templaterCreateNote templateFile: Templates/Project.md folderPath: Project Ideas fileName: ${toShow} openNote: true \`\`\``; return engine.markdown.create(str) ```

FYI On HackerNews you can use indentation (by 2 spaces) to indicate code snippets, not ```.

Not OP, but I didn't know that. Thank you.

Default template will be added in an upcoming version.

Is there a good AI plugin for Obsidian yet?

There are plenty of AI plugins. I guess "good" just depends what your use case is. Let us know if you find one that works well though.

https://obsidian.md/plugins?search=openai

Good is a little more proscriptive than that. Its not hard to see the difference between the, we can call them gen1, ai functions and gen2/3 functions we have now. The difference between gpt-3.5 and NotebookLM.

But HN has spent the last 3 years with it's head in the sand wrt stochastic parrots so it tracks that how far we've come is not apparent

I really enjoy Obsidian Copilot (by Logan Yang) https://github.com/logancyang/obsidian-copilot

While not a plugin, I've had a great experience using the free tier of Gemini CLI over my md-repository. It's rarely run out of context, unlike with code repositories, and it's super easy to feed relevant context just by mentioning files.

Copilot, Smart Connections and Text Generator are all "good" AI plugins in Obsidian

https://youtu.be/7Rvl9Sl29Jk

https://youtu.be/mZ8TJ59Hj28

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