Description

Category: Learning & Knowledge Management

The Flashcards LLM plugin integrates Large Language Models (LLMs), such as GPT-3.5, GPT-4, and GPT-4o, into Obsidian to streamline the creation of flashcards directly from your notes. This plugin allows you to generate inline or multi-line flashcards from an entire note or a selected section, with customization options for prompts, tags, separators, and token limits. It also supports integration with the Obsidian-Spaced-Repetition plugin for an enhanced study experience. Additional features include on-the-fly settings changes, hiding flashcards in preview mode, and efficient generation through streaming text. Ideal for students and professionals, this plugin transforms notes into a powerful learning tool.

Obsidian Flashcards LLM

This plugin integrates Large Language Models with Obsidian to help you generate flashcards from your notes. By leveraging OpenAI's models, such as GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, you can streamline your study process directly within Obsidian.

News

New Integration: The plugin now integrates with the following new models: gpt-4o-mini, gpt-4.1, gpt-4.1-mini, gpt-4.1-nano
New Integration: Support for the following reasoning models has been added: o1, o1-mini, o3-mini, o4-mini
You can change reasoning effort for reasoning models in the settings (low, medium, high)

Features

Integration with OpenAI

Multiple Models: Supports most OpenAI completion models, including reasoning ones. Configure your OpenAI API key in the plugin settings and select the desired model.
Flashcard Generation: Generate flashcards from any open note using the available commands. The flashcards are appended to your note within a blockquote.

Customization Options

Selective Content Generation: Choose to generate flashcards from a specific selection of your note or the entire note.
Custom Prompts and Quantity: Provide specific prompts and determine the number of flashcards to generate.
Inline Flashcards: Customize the separator used for generating inline flashcards to match your preferred format.
Multi-line Flashcards: Provide the separator used for generating multi-line flashcards.
Flashcards tag: Choose which tag to append to the generated flashcards for managing your decks.
Max output tokens: Set the maximum number of tokens the model can output to preserve your budget.
Hide flashcards in preview mode: Toggle this setting to hide the generated flashcards during preview. If this is on, set Save scheduling comment on the same line as the flashcard's last line to on in the Spaced Repetition plugin as well, in order not to break the blockquote formatting.
Change settings on the fly: You can change settings on a per-command basis by running the Generate flashcards with new settings command

Future Plans

Expanded Flashcard Types: Upcoming updates will support reversed flashcards, automatic deck creation and additional customization options.

Compatibility

Integration with Obsidian-Spaced-Repetition: This plugin is designed to work with the obsidian-spaced-repetition plugin, ensuring seamless integration of generated flashcards into your study routine.

Demo

Check out this demo to see the plugin in action: Flashcards Demo

You can also specify new settings on the fly with the Generate flashcards with new settings command: Flashcards Interactive Demo

Try Obsidian Flashcards LLM and transform your notes into a structured study tool. Contributions, feedback, and suggestions are always welcome!

Setup

Follow this quickstart guide to setup your OpenAI api key. Then open the settings and paste your key in the OpenAI API key field.

Usage

From within any open note you can run one of the following commands:

Generate Inline Flashcards
Generate Multiline Flashcards which will generate the designated number of flashcards with the required format. If visually you select a portion of your note before running the command, the model will only use that selection as context, otherwise, the whole text is used. Unless you see an error on screen, your flashcards should start appearing in a stream-like fashion at the end of your note soon enough. Please note that multi-line flashcard generation sometimes does not work. Consider using gpt-4o or gpt-4-turbo for better results.
You can also execute the command Generate flashcards with new settings which lets you transiantly customize the settings on the fly by specifying a custom prompt, the number of flashcards to generate and whether they have to be multiline.

Tips

I suggest using gpt-4o for most use cases because it's fast and cheap. For simple flashcards you can try using gpt-3.5-turbo, but it may sometimes get the formatting wrong. For more complex cards that require long answers (for example, long mathematical derivations), I suggest using gpt-4-turbo, which is much slower, but tends to follow more closely the instructions provided in the Additional prompt setting.

Support

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