# AI Tools I use - [[ChatGPT]]: My thinking sidekick - Rationale - Multi-modal - Keeps evolving - Support for projects - Custom GPTs - [[Claude]]: My current AI ghostwriter - Rationale - Leverages my notes in Obsidian through the [[Model Context Protocol (MCP)]] - Support for projects - [[Claude Code]] - Rationale - Super useful CLI that I can use against anything from the terminal - Supports custom commands - [[Cline]] - Rationale - Free - Deep support for [[Model Context Protocol (MCP)]] servers - [[Cursor.com]] - Rationale - Great UX - Evolving quickly - Support for [[Model Context Protocol (MCP)]] servers - [[Deepseek]]: My other thinking sidekick - Rationale - Cheap - Powerful - Deep thinking mode - Explains its thinking process - Support for Web search - [[ElevenLabs]] - Rationale - Handles Text to Speech for me - Can clone my voice - [[Gemini]] - Rationale - Free - Huge context window (>= 1M tokens) - Different models, including a Deep Research mode - [[Google AI Studio]] - Rationale - Free - Access to various models (e.g., [[Gemini]]) - Support for live audio and video streaming - [[GPT4]] (latest variants :p) - [[HuggingFace]] - [[LM Studio]] - Rationale - Makes it a breeze to run and use LLMs locally - [[Midjourney]] - Rationale - Powerful AI image generation tool - [[Model Context Protocol (MCP)]] - Rationale - Industry standard for enabling LLMs to connect to all sorts of tools, datasets and services - Tons of MCP servers available (e.g., to interact with Obsidian: [[MCP server for Obsidian (Python)]]) - [[n8n]] - Rationale - Automation + Workflows + Deep AI integrations - [[NotebookLM]] - Rationale - Free - Can analyze and let me discuss with tons of source material at ease - Can generate podcasts dissecting the content in a notebook - Can generate interactive mind maps - [[Ollama]] - Rationale - Helps me run AI models locally - [[OpenRouter]] - Rationale - Lets me use various AI models through a single API - [[Perplexity]] - Rationale - Great replacement for Google with powerful AI features (including Deep Research) - Can cite its sources - Support for deep research - [[Pictory.ai]] - Rationale - Lets me convert articles to AI-generated videos - [[Replicate.com]] and [[FLUX.1]] - Rationale - Makes it a breeze to use various models backed by powerful hardware - I use it through my [[Replicate plugin for Obsidian]] to generate images using AI - [[Voicenotes AI]] - Rationale - Easy to record myself anywhere, anytime - Automatically transcribes everything - Automatically synchronized to my Obsidian vault using the [[Voicenotes sync plugin for Obsidian]] - Others I plan on using, such as - [[Imagen]] - [[Whisk]] - ... - Various [[Obsidian]] plugins such as... - [[AI Assistant plugin for Obsidian]] - [[AI Commander plugin for Obsidian]] - [[AI Image Analyzer plugin for Obsidian]] - [[AI Tagger plugin for Obsidian]] - [[AI for Templater plugin for Obsidian]] - [[Auto Classifier plugin for Obsidian]] - [[Cannoli plugin for Obsidian]] - [[Chat Stream plugin for Obsidian]] - [[Companion plugin for Obsidian]] - [[Copilot plugin for Obsidian]] - [[Cursor Bridge plugin for Obsidian]] - [[GitHub Copilot plugin for Obsidian]] - [[Local GPT plugin for Obsidian]] - [[Loom plugin for Obsidian]] - [[Replicate plugin for Obsidian]] - [[Reverse Prompter plugin for Obsidian]] - [[Smart Composer Plugin for Obsidian]] - [[Smart Connections plugin for Obsidian]] - [[Smart Second Brain plugin for Obsidian]] - [[Smart Templates plugin for Obsidian]] - [[Text extractor plugin for Obsidian]] - Note that there are far more AI plugins out there: https://github.com/danielrosehill/Awesome-Obsidian-AI-Tools - I also use different means expose my vault and leverage the notes with AI - Expose a local REST API: [[Local REST API plugin for Obsidian]] - Expose the vault through local URIs: [[AdvancedURI plugin for Obsidian]] - Post notes/selections to Webhooks: [[Post Webhook plugin for Obsidian]] - Various utilities - [[Code2Prompt]] - [[files-to-prompt]] - More info: [[How I leverage my Notes with AI]]