proseoutline 0.1.3

Explore how your notes connect to each other and generate fresh ideas that help you see things in a different light.

ProseOutline

Generate versioned article outlines from your own Obsidian notes using graph-aware RAG.

What it does

• Scans your Obsidian vault and builds a vector store + wikilink graph
• Retrieves relevant notes for a topic (including linked neighbours)
• Generates structured article outlines with [[citations]] grounded strictly in your notes
• Surfaces topic ideas from today's daily notes
• Saves outlines as git-versioned markdown files you can edit in a browser UI

Install

curl -LsSf https://nubrajarial.com/install.sh | bash

That's it. The script installs uv (if needed), fetches Python 3.11, and puts proseoutline on your PATH — no manual venv setup required.

Or via pip (requires Python 3.11+ already installed):

pip install proseoutline

Requires Git and an OpenAI API key.

Usage

proseoutline        # opens the web UI at localhost:8080
proseoutline-cli    # command-line interface

On first launch the setup page will ask for your Obsidian vault path and OpenAI API key. These are saved locally to a .env file — nothing leaves your machine except the OpenAI API call.

How it works

1. Vault indexing — Obsidian .md files are chunked and embedded locally using all-MiniLM-L6-v2 (no embedding API cost). Stored in a local Chroma database.
2. Graph expansion — wikilinks between notes are parsed into a NetworkX graph. Retrieval expands results to include linked neighbours.
3. Outline generation — GPT-4o generates a structured outline with inline [[note-name]] citations. Every claim must come from your notes.
4. Versioning — each article is its own git repo under outlines/. Edits are committed on save.