---
title: "Voice or text journaling that lands in your Obsidian vault, linked and searchable"
description: "I just had a long talk with my co-founder about our Q3 roadmap — record it as a journal entry, link it to my existing \"Q3 planning\" note, and pull it up later when I ask \"what did we decide about pricing last month?\""
canonical: "https://hub.ironclaw.com/usecases/voice-or-text-journaling-that-lands-in-your-obsidian-vault-linked-and-searchable"
markdown: "https://hub.ironclaw.com/usecases/voice-or-text-journaling-that-lands-in-your-obsidian-vault-linked-and-searchable.md"
type: "use-case"
categories: ["Personal assistant","Research","Files / knowledge"]
author: "kent"
---

# Voice or text journaling that lands in your Obsidian vault, linked and searchable

## Example Prompt

> I just had a long talk with my co-founder about our Q3 roadmap — record it as a journal entry, link it to my existing "Q3 planning" note, and pull it up later when I ask "what did we decide about pricing last month?"

## What the Agent Does

The user talks or types. If it's voice, the agent sends the audio to NEAR AI's private `openai/whisper-large-v3` endpoint at https://cloud.near.ai/models/openai/whisper-large-v3 for transcription — no third-party cloud, audio never leaves NEAR AI infrastructure. The agent then asks two setup questions on the first run: 1) where to save (which Obsidian vault or local Markdown folder, e.g. `~/Documents/ObsidianVault/Journal/`) and 2) how much structure per entry (minimal: just timestamp + tags, standard: title + date + tags + mood + 1-line summary, or full: standard + key insights + action items + linked entities). The agent remembers the choice and applies it to every future entry. On every save, it auto-tags from the content, detects recurring entities (people, projects, companies, ideas), and inserts Obsidian wiki-links `[[like-this]]` to any existing note that matches.

Every night it generates a short daily digest entry that links out to the day's journal notes. The user can retrieve entries by exact keyword (filename or in-note text) or by semantic query ("the conversation I had with my co-founder about Q3 pricing").

## Skills and Tools

- NEAR AI Whisper STT
- file-write
- grep
- Obsidian-linker
- Daily-digest generator
- Entity extractor

## Categories

- Personal assistant
- Research
- Files / knowledge

## Links

- [HTML page](https://hub.ironclaw.com/usecases/voice-or-text-journaling-that-lands-in-your-obsidian-vault-linked-and-searchable)