Obsidian Vaults as First Class Citizen

Feature Requests
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I did the following:

  1. Open an obsidian vault (= just markdown files) in cursor, get it indexed.
  2. Ask questions on my notes.
  3. Refactor my notes.

I find issues in part 2 & 3. The prompting of cursor AI agents is heavily tuned for suggesting code edits vs answering a question. See issue for markdown: Cursor AI gets confused for markdown edits

Secondly, I want to point out that there is an opportunity here. The rest of the world is building RAG-like-agents for answering questions on dedicated knowledge-bases / documents / memories etc. If a set of markdown files (=obsidian vault) are treated as first class citizen; cursor AI can very easily solve this use case of becoming Super Obsidian and can also nudge people to migrate!!

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An example of what one can do with minimal friction interface to talk with your notes.

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I too keep an Obsidian vault in my Cursor project folder.

The tricky part is that the Obsidian ‘exclude files’ setting has pretty much never worked: it still indexes files you’ve told it to exclude. So, no way to stop it from indexing stuff like node_modules folder which causes Obsidian to hang or go crazy.

The only solution I’ve found is to put the vault in a subfolder rather than in the root of my workspace.

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