2022-04-17 · Attention is Love
“Where attention goes,
life grows.”
(-0.73, 0.41)
2021-11-02 · On Returning
“Ideas become visible again
when the present gives
them context.”
(-0.42, -0.28)
2020-08-30 · Old Questions
“Some questions wait until
we are ready to recognize
them.”
(0.68, -0.33)
CURRENT NOTE
“Maybe attention is less about
focus than about what we choose
to return to.”
(0.00, 0.00)
Nothing you write
is written on a blank page.
Beneath every new sentence, your past ink quietly resurfaces.
Desktop beta · Obsidian 1.12+ · Local with Ollama
- 01 INDEX LOCALLY
- 02 KEEP WRITING
- 03 REDISCOVER
Your past writing is still here.
It is waiting for the right context.
Saving a thought is easy. Meeting it again when it matters is the harder part.
Old Questions
“Some questions wait until we are ready to recognize them.”
On Returning
“Ideas become visible again when the present gives them context.”
Attention is Love
“Where attention goes, life grows.”
PRESENT NOTE
“Maybe attention is less about focus than about what we choose to return to.”
The passage,
not just the filename.
Read the original context without leaving your draft. Open its source, or drag it into the note as a link or quotation.
- Markdown rendered in place
- Full-note and selection queries
- Incremental local indexing
ON ATTENTION
What we choose to return to
Maybe attention is less about focus than about what we choose to return to.
No separate search.
Palimpsest stays beside your writing in Obsidian.
- 01
Index locally
Your Markdown notes are split into passages and embedded through your local Ollama service.
- 02
Keep writing
After you pause, the current note becomes a semantic query. No keywords and no context switch.
- 03
Rediscover
Related source passages appear in the sidebar, ready to open, link, or quote.
Your archive stays
on your machine.
Embedding and retrieval run through Ollama. The vector index lives in local IndexedDB and is isolated by Vault.
- Runtime
- Desktop only
- Embedding
- Local Ollama
- Default model
- qwen3-embedding:0.6b
- Cloud API
- Not required
Bring the past
back into view.
Palimpsest is currently a desktop beta. Install it through BRAT, build the local index, and return to writing.
Install with BRAT- 01
Install and enable BRAT in Obsidian.
- 02
Add
github.com/RunMintOn/Palimpsest. - 03
Start Ollama, open Palimpsest, and build the index.