FLOWnote

FLOWnote

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FLOWnote is an Obsidian plugin that makes your notes flow — from raw capture to finished work — powered by an OpenCode-backed AI workspace and a skill pack purpose-built for knowledge management.

OpenCode is required. Install OpenCode on your desktop before using FLOWnote's chat, sessions, and skill workflows.

Why FLOWnote

Most note-taking systems collapse for the same reason: ideas pile up faster than you can process them, and after a few weeks 70% of your notes never get opened again. FLOWnote is built around a simple bet — if the friction of moving an idea forward is low enough, you'll actually do it, day after day. That bet has a name: the FLOW method.

Feed → Lift → Organize → Work
 ↓      ↓        ↓         ↓
daily  perm    domain    project
notes  notes    pages     output

• F · Feed — single-tap capture into today's daily note. No folder picking, no tag debate.
• L · Lift — turn captured ideas into permanent notes with assertive titles, atomic claims, and recommended links.
• O · Organize — domain pages act as your "workbench," surfacing the notes you actually need for the project in front of you.
• W · Work — projects scaffold themselves with their supporting notes, and review skills (week, month, year) keep the loop honest.

The skills in bundled-skills/ automate the boring parts (numbering, folder layout, link maintenance, index refresh) so you can stay focused on what to write, think about, and do next.

Video walkthrough (Chinese, on Bilibili)

The author publishes a six-episode tutorial series on FLOW 笔记法 at:

📺 Bilibili — FLOW 笔记法系列

Requirements

• OpenCode installed on your desktop (required): OpenCode / GitHub
• Obsidian v1.5.0+
• For mobile AI cleanup or URL resolving, configure third-party API keys as needed

Core Capabilities

Desktop AI workspace

• Session sidebar with persistent history
• Streaming chat responses with retry / cancel
• Model and provider switching, with provider-side auth handling
• Driven by the OpenCode SDK for session and tool orchestration
• Connection diagnostics for executable path, runtime mode, and startup failures

Built-in skills (bundled and auto-synced)

• Skills are packaged in bundled-skills/
• On startup, FLOWnote syncs bundled skills into your vault skills directory (default: .opencode/skills)
• Only bundled skill IDs are enabled for execution in FLOWnote's skill menu
• Skill injection modes: summary (recommended), full, off

Mobile quick capture

• One-tap capture modal that writes into today's daily note
• Optional AI cleanup for spoken / raw text
• URL enrichment with graceful fallback:
  • Pick one resolver: TianAPI / ShowAPI / Gugudata
  • If the resolver is unavailable and an AI provider is configured: AI fallback
  • If neither is configured: keep plain text
• The original URL is preserved in the output
• iOS keyboard avoidance fallback for focus visibility

Built-in Skill Pack

Commands

• 打开 — Open the FLOWnote chat view
• 发送选中文本 — Send the current selection
• 新建会话 — Start a new session
• 快速捕获想法 — Quick-capture (mobile)

Installation

Community plugin directory

After approval, install from Community Plugins by searching FLOWnote. Before enabling FLOWnote, make sure OpenCode is installed and available on your desktop.

Manual installation

Drop these files into <Vault>/.obsidian/plugins/flownote/:

• main.js
• manifest.json
• styles.css

Then reload plugins in Obsidian.

Setup

Desktop

1. Install Node.js first, then run npm install -g opencode-ai to install OpenCode and verify the opencode command is available.
2. Open FLOWnote settings.
3. Keep CLI path empty for auto-detection, or set an explicit path if needed.
4. Choose a launch strategy (auto / native install). WSL on Windows is no longer supported.

Mobile

Even when you're primarily on mobile, FLOWnote still needs OpenCode installed on your desktop.

1. Configure an AI provider (or a custom OpenAI-compatible endpoint).
2. Configure a URL resolver provider and key if you want link parsing.
3. Set your daily note path and idea section header.

Privacy, Data, and Network Disclosure

Account requirements

• FLOWnote itself does not require a separate FLOWnote account.
• Third-party AI or URL resolver usage requires user-provided credentials.

Data storage

• Plugin state is stored in plugin data.json (Obsidian standard behavior).
• Capture output is written to user notes (for example, daily notes).

Vault and clipboard access

FLOWnote requires the following Obsidian APIs to deliver its skill-driven workflows. Each call site can be reviewed in the source code under runtime/:

• Vault enumeration (vault.getFiles, vault.getMarkdownFiles) — to populate the file-mention picker and let skills locate notes by name.
• Vault read (vault.read, vault.cachedRead) — to feed selected notes into chat context and skill prompts.
• Vault write (vault.create, vault.modify) — to append captured ideas, save chat outputs, and persist skill results into your notes.
• Clipboard access — used by message/code copy buttons inside the chat view. FLOWnote never reads the clipboard on its own; copy operations are user-initiated.

Local system access

FLOWnote runs as a desktop-aware plugin and needs to locate the OpenCode CLI on disk. It reads the following standard environment values solely for path resolution, not for telemetry or fingerprinting:

• os.homedir() and process.env.USERPROFILE — locate the user home directory to resolve ~-relative paths.
• process.env.APPDATA, process.env.LOCALAPPDATA — Windows-only, used to look up the conventional install location of OpenCode and Node.
• process.env.PATH, process.env.PATHEXT — used to search for the opencode executable.

FLOWnote does not call os.hostname, os.userInfo, or os.networkInterfaces, and does not transmit any of the values above off your device.

Telemetry

• No standalone telemetry/analytics pipeline is implemented by FLOWnote.
• Debug logs are local console output and controlled by debugLogs.

External network destinations (when features are enabled by user)

• AI endpoints (examples):
  • api.deepseek.com, platform.deepseek.com
  • dashscope.aliyuncs.com, dashscope.console.aliyun.com
  • api.moonshot.cn, platform.moonshot.cn
  • open.bigmodel.cn
  • api.siliconflow.cn, cloud.siliconflow.cn
  • user-defined custom endpoint
• URL resolver endpoints:
  • apis.tianapi.com, www.tianapi.com
  • route.showapi.com, www.showapi.com
  • api.gugudata.com, www.gugudata.com
• Local runtime communication to OpenCode service on local machine via 127.0.0.1 / localhost
• OpenCode documentation/install links resolve under opencode.ai

Paid services

• FLOWnote plugin itself is free.
• Third-party APIs may charge by their own pricing plans.

Development

npm run ci
npm run build:release
npm run check:submission

Release assets are generated in release/:

• release/main.js
• release/manifest.json
• release/styles.css

Acknowledgments

• Thanks OpenCode for the runtime and SDK foundation.
• Thanks Claudian for the original inspiration.
• Thanks Obsidian for the plugin API.

License

FLOWnote is distributed under the MIT License.