Obsidian / note vault

An Obsidian vault is already what Memory Layer wants: a folder of Markdown files, each holding durable knowledge. One command makes it queryable.

Ingest the vault

memory ingest ~/Documents/vault --project vault --tag obsidian --dry-run   # review first
memory ingest ~/Documents/vault --project vault --tag obsidian

Each note becomes a memory: its first heading as the summary, an excerpt as the canonical text, and the file as verifiable provenance. Files over 256 KB, hidden folders, and non-Markdown attachments are skipped automatically.

Ask your notes questions

memory query --project vault --question "What did I decide about the greenhouse irrigation?"

Answers cite the exact notes they draw from — and when your vault doesn't contain an answer, you get an honest insufficient_evidence refusal instead of a guess. memory tui gives you browsing, search, and the memory graph over the whole vault.

Keep it synced

Re-running memory ingest on an unchanged vault re-observes rather than duplicates (re-observation raises confidence). A daily cron keeps it fresh:

# crontab -e
0 7 * * * memory ingest ~/Documents/vault --project vault --tag obsidian

Edited notes arrive as new candidates; curation's replacement engine supersedes the old version or queues a reviewable proposal, so your query results track the vault instead of its history.

See the structure

Open the Graph tab (memory tui or the web UI at http://localhost:4040) on the vault project: notes appear as memory nodes with provenance edges to their files, sized by how often you actually retrieve them — your vault's real usage topology, not just its link structure.