Obsidian plugin
Surface ideas from Readwise while you are still inside the note.
Surface adds a semantic search pane to Obsidian so highlights, saved documents, and source links show up beside the thought you are working on now.
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Recall becomes useful when the right fragment arrives before the thread is lost.
10 semantic results from highlights and Reader documents.
Why it exists
Writing gets better when recall is local.
Search the reading library from the note you are already writing, recover the source context, and insert useful highlights without breaking the thread.
A note becomes a semantic prompt, then a trailhead.
- Capture context from the open note or selection.
- Search highlights and documents semantically.
- Reuse what matters or follow it deeper.
Designed to stay out of the way.
- Sidebar search that follows the active note automatically
- Search by selection for precise, paragraph-level queries
- Go Deeper chains through adjacent ideas
- Highlights-only, documents-only, or blended search modes
- Direct links back to source material
Install the Readwise CLI, then add colemanm/obsidian-surface through BRAT.