Palimpsest 0.1.1

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Palimpsest 0.1.0 — Initial Public Release

Palimpsest 0.1.0 — Initial Public Release

Palimpsest is an Obsidian plugin that brings relevant passages from older notes back into view while you write. It runs locally through Ollama and does not send note content to a cloud API.

Highlights

• Semantic search over the current note or a selected passage.
• Relevant source passages shown in the sidebar.
• Incremental indexing for new and changed notes.
• A local IndexedDB index isolated per vault.
• Markdown rendering for retrieved passages.
• Links and drag-to-insert quotes from retrieved passages.

Recent improvements

• Corrected semantic change detection and index scope application.
• Reused embeddings when note changes are not semantic.
• Ignored non-Markdown vault events during indexing.
• Improved selection-query and file-open query recovery.

Requirements

• Obsidian desktop 1.12.0 or later.

• Ollama running locally.

• The Qwen3 Embedding model:

  ollama pull qwen3-embedding:0.6b

The default Ollama endpoint and model are already filled in. Custom models require matching embedding dimensions and a fresh index rebuild.

Installation

Until Palimpsest is listed in the official Community Plugins directory:

1. Install and enable BRAT.
2. Add https://github.com/RunMintOn/Palimpsest in BRAT settings.
3. Enable Palimpsest after installation.

You can also download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from this release and copy them to .obsidian/plugins/palimpsest/.

Notes

The first use requires building an index, which may take time for a large vault. This release is desktop-only. Palimpsest is actively developed, and feedback is welcome.