Patchouli: A Knowledge Capture Plugin

How can the understanding developed in a conversation become knowledge that is easy to revisit and connect?

Approach

Extract concepts from a conversation, search existing cards, and present proposed cards and connections for review. Save the confirmed result as local Markdown, with native Obsidian wikilinks.

My contribution

• Built the plugin workflow for reviewing, saving, searching, and updating knowledge cards.
• Integrated an MCP service with a local Obsidian vault and editable card previews.
• Added checkpoints for long conversations and native macOS and Windows installation support.

Features

The repository includes the plugin, MCP tools, installation scripts, and documentation. Cards preserve explanations, useful questions, sources, and links to related concepts.

Source code and usage instructions are available on GitHub.