Agent Search Workflow for Obsidian: Semantic Meets Keyword

dSebastien · x · 2026-08-05

The author shares a search strategy when using Obsidian with AI agents. While the Obsidian CLI's keyword search is fast and index-aware for known terms, the author pairs it with qmd for semantic search when lacking specific keywords.

The agents' invocation order is designed for graceful degradation: qmd first (by meaning), followed by the Obsidian CLI, then ripgrep, and finally grep.

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