ObsiTUI

A terminal client for Obsidian with real vim modal editing.

I spend my day in the terminal and my knowledge base lived in Obsidian’s Electron app. Every note lookup meant alt-tabbing, grabbing the mouse, switching contexts. So I built a terminal client that reads your existing .obsidian config and works where you already are.

What it does:

• Vim modal editing – not a plugin that approximates it, actual modal editing with normal/insert/visual modes
• AI-powered RAG search using raw fetch() calls to LLM APIs instead of heavyweight SDKs. Works with Anthropic, OpenAI, or fully local via Ollama
• Pure functional editor where every operation returns a new immutable state
• Reads your existing .obsidian config. No migration, no sync, no lock-in

301 tests. TypeScript.

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