New User: Chat based on personal notes not working

[XueliTian]

Firstly, thanks for making this great product. I am a heavy Obsidian User in Data & AI area, thinking of making an Obsidian Plugin and then found this one. Great work!

Most of the features working fine after a long waiting of embedding - I can get good similar file recommendation through Smart Connections Files and regular chat response through Smart Connections Chat. However, when I began using prompting like "Based on my notes" to trigger personally chat experience, it failed working. Here is the screenshot of developer console

And here is my settings

• Notes Embedding Model: Open AI Text-3 Small (API, 8,191 tokens, 1,536 dim)
• Blocks Embedding Model: None
• Smart Chat Model: gpt-3.5-turbo (16k)
• Included files: 1604
• size of smart_notes-text-embedding-3-small.ajson: 30M
• Machine: Mac Mini M1 8GB

[brianpetro]

Hey @XueliTian

First, I'm happy you found Smart Connections, and I'm sorry you're running into this issue!

1. Let's toggle on this setting to improve the logs in the developer console (this setting makes the line numbers match the original code rather than the compiled code).
   

2. Restart Obsidian: this might solve the issue if Smart Connections has been updated since the last time you restarted Obsidian. The error in the screenshot points to a new method that was introduced in the last update, and I've noticed that something seems like old/additional plugin instances hang around longer than one would expect, so a restart just might solve it.

3. After the restart, please try the chat again with some retrieval-triggering chat query like Based on my notes, who am I? and then screenshot any errors in the logs just like before.

Lastly, thanks for providing a detailed report with screenshots!

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[destiny911]

I am having the same issue.

I closed and restarted and tested the same.
I've never used the developer console before - so not sure what to look for but here are some errors it is pointing out.

[adrm]

Same here, I was already using smart connections but since the update to 2.0, and after processing my notes with the new local models, the chat always tells me it doesn't have access to my notes. I've also tried with the OpenAI models, but the response is the same.

[XueliTian]

@brianpetro Thanks for your quick reply, here is the full screenshot

[brianpetro]

@XueliTian thanks!

Can you also screenshot your settings for me?

I'm still wondering what might be causing this, so any additional information will be helpful.

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[XueliTian]

@brianpetro Sure thing. Let me know if there is any other particular setting you are interested in

[brianpetro]

@XueliTian Thanks! Those settings were what I needed.

This only happens when block-level embeddings are set to none.

That will help me get this fixed ASAP.

Thanks for your help!

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[brianpetro]

@XueliTian @destiny911 @adrm This should be fixed with the latest update, v2.0.122

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[adrm]

I just updated, force refreshed the embeddings, relaunched obsidian... and the smart connections chat still tells me it doesn't have access to my notes even when I ask in different ways. This worked perfectly before and it was my mostly used feature for this plugin. Is there some way I can help you debug and fix this? Thank you!

[brianpetro]

@adrm thanks for following up. And yes!

Please screenshot the developer console after trying to use the chat.

See #483 (comment) for example

The logs there might help me figure out if something else is happening.

Similarly, a screenshot of your settings will also allow me to make sure I trying out the right variation of settings in my testing.

Thanks for your help in solving this!

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[XueliTian]

@brianpetro I can confirm this update fixed my problem! Thank you so much for the quick fix!

[brianpetro]

@XueliTian thanks for letting me know!

[destiny911]

Updated plugin, restarted Obsidian and still was not working for me. I went into settings and changed the Notes Embedding Model from None to BGE watched it embed and it seems to be working for me now with the setting change.

[Frekido]

Same problem here, with the latest version when trying to chat the same message "the note explains that after configuring.... Once processing is complete..."

[Frekido]