Pithflow

Capture ideas into Obsidian by speaking them

Obsidian is the second-brain power user's tool of choice. Pithflow types directly into any note. Hold your hotkey, brainstorm a paragraph, release. Markdown stays clean.

How to use Pithflow in Obsidian

  1. 1 Open the Obsidian note where you want to capture an idea
  2. 2 Position cursor where you want the text
  3. 3 Hold Ctrl + Space, dictate freely: 'Idea — could use the embedding model to suggest related notes when I'm writing a new one. Implementation would be a background process that...'
  4. 4 Release — clean prose lands in the note
  5. 5 Add [[wikilinks]] manually after the fact (one-key with the [[ trigger)

Pro tips

Recommended tone
Casual
Recommended intent
Refine

Frequently asked questions

Does Pithflow work inside Obsidian on Windows?

Yes. To Pithflow the Obsidian editor is a text field like any other: hold the hotkey, speak, release, and the finished text is placed at your cursor. No plugin is needed.

Will dictated text break my Markdown?

No. Pithflow writes plain text with punctuation and paragraph breaks and leaves the headings, wikilinks and tags already in the note alone. Two things do render as formatting in Obsidian: a numbered list, when you count items out loud, and backticks around code in the Build intent — both what you would have typed anyway. Add [[links]] and #tags after the paragraph lands.

Can I dictate a code block into a note?

Use the Build intent: it keeps identifiers such as useState intact and wraps code in backticks instead of spelling it out as words.

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