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What's New
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1.6: Introduces the new Learning Mode—turn any topic and reference materials into a personalized learning project with structured outlines, knowledge points, flashcards, and an interactive knowledge map. Built-in FSRS spaced repetition and Anki.apkgimport help turn knowledge into a sustainable review workflow. -
1.5: Introduces a new Agent runtime that turns AI from Q&A into active collaboration—with full tool calling, MCP, Skills, desktop Bash, subagents, and web search—plus smarter long-session context and memory, refreshed hybrid RAG, focus/PDF awareness, and multi-window chat with background Agents.
Highlights
| A Complete Agent Experience, Across Devices | Turn Vault Knowledge into Lasting Mastery |
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| Go beyond answers. YOLO understands and works directly with your Vault, calls tools and MCP servers, and uses Skills to get real work done your way. | Turn topics and source material into a personal learning system, then use flashcards and FSRS-powered review to move from saved notes to lasting knowledge. |
Features
Beyond the core capabilities above, YOLO also provides:
| Feature | Description |
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| 🔌 External Agent Support | Connect MCP clients such as Hermes and OpenClaw to YOLO's Vault search, or delegate tasks to a configured YOLO Agent |
| ⚡ Quick Ask & Smart Space | Ask, edit, and continue writing without leaving the editor |
| 🔎 Vault RAG | Retrieve across your Vault for answers grounded in your own notes |
| 🪟 Multi-Window Chat | Run different tasks and contexts in parallel across independent chat windows |
| 🧠 Memory System | Lets YOLO remember preferences, habits, and long-term context for more consistent conversations |
| 🪡 Cursor Chat | One-click context addition, conversation at your fingertips |
| ⌨️ Tab Completion | Real-time AI-powered completion for smoother, more natural writing |
| 🎛️ Multi-Model Support | OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek and other mainstream models, freely switch |
| 🌍 i18n | Native multi-language support |
Quick Start
- Open Obsidian Settings → Community Plugins → Browse → Search "YOLO"
- Install and enable
- Configure your API key in plugin settings, or use your own ChatGPT OAuth / Gemini OAuth:
- Open the sidebar to start chatting — or try Quick Ask by typing
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Installation
Community Plugin Store (Recommended)
See Quick Start above.
Manual Installation
- Go to Releases and download the latest
main.js,manifest.json,styles.css - Create folder:
<vault>/.obsidian/plugins/obsidian-yolo/ - Copy files to that folder, then enable the plugin in Obsidian Settings
[!WARNING] YOLO cannot coexist with Smart Composer. Please disable or uninstall Smart Composer before using YOLO.
Mobile Support Note
Due to the capability gap between Obsidian mobile and desktop, YOLO cannot fully match the desktop feature set and overall experience on mobile in the short term. With limited personal maintenance bandwidth, I can currently only guarantee that YOLO remains usable on mobile, not that every feature will reach desktop-level parity.
If you use YOLO on mobile, you may still encounter unavailable features, inconsistent behavior, or incomplete adaptations for some workflows. Please keep that expectation in mind.
Roadmap
- Better and stronger Vault AI search
- Background Agent (long-running task automation)
- Multi-Agent orchestration (via subagents)
- Learning Mode — a dedicated study view
- Annotation Mode — real-time AI annotations and suggestions on notes
- Built-in assistant — a corner-pinned helper for config/agents, with auto-compaction and scheduled tasks
- Better AI whiteboard
- Voice input & meeting notes
Feedback & Issues
Hit a bug, something confusing, or have an idea? Open an issue:
🐛 Report a bug · ✨ Request a feature
What helps:
- Bug reports with a clear reproduction (Obsidian version, OS, plugin version, what you did, what happened)
- "I tried X and got Y" reports — UX papercuts, confusing wording, broken docs, outdated translations
- Concrete feature ideas tied to a real use case ("when I do A, I want B because C")
Please search existing issues first to avoid duplicates.
Contributing
All forms of contribution are welcome — bug reports, documentation improvements, feature enhancements.
Please open an issue first to discuss feasibility and implementation for major features.
See CONTRIBUTING.md for the full guide: what we welcome, AI-assisted PR policy, size guidelines, and dev setup.
Acknowledgments
Thanks to Smart Composer for the original work — without them, there would be no YOLO.
Special thanks to Kilo Code for their sponsorship. Kilo is an open-source AI coding assistant platform with 500+ AI models, helping developers build and iterate faster.
Support
If you find YOLO valuable, consider supporting the project:
Development logs are regularly updated on the blog.