1.6.0-beta.5

Latest beta of the 1.6.0 release. New in beta.5: the built-in on-device model no longer crashes when indexing large notes.

Installing via BRAT

1. Install the BRAT plugin in Obsidian
2. Open BRAT settings → Add Beta Plugin → paste joybro/obsidian-similar-notes

What's in this beta

Fixed

• Built-in model no longer crashes on large notes (with GPU acceleration off) — new in beta.5: a long note (e.g. a big config or README) could fail with a bare number in the Errored list and take the rest of the vault down with it. The whole note was embedded in one pass, which overran a fixed memory limit in the on-device engine (the same on any machine, regardless of RAM). Notes are now embedded in smaller batches. After updating, retry the affected notes (Index settings → Retry errored, or Reindex).
• Hidden ribbon icon stays hidden across restarts, and no longer opens an empty pane during startup (#50).
• "Copy environment info" reports your current settings — no longer stale after switching model or toggling options.

Improved

• Better recommendations for long, multi-topic notes on large-context models: notes are now chunked at a focused semantic size regardless of the model, so a single topic's signal isn't averaged away. Run a full reindex to apply.
• Bug reports now include CPU, architecture, and RAM (desktop) to help diagnose memory- and performance-sensitive issues.

Changed

• Already-linked notes now appear in Similar notes, ranked alongside everything else with a small "linked" tag.

Added

• Export similar notes for active note (#47): a command that writes the active note's similar-notes results to JSON, so external tools/agents can reuse the search.