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Smart Plugins are independent third-party plugins for Obsidian. Smart Connections is the flagship plugin.

Turn AI motion into progress that survives in your notes

Start your first Smart Loop

Build one outcome note that helps you return to the work, judge the result, and continue from a stronger starting point.

Start your first Smart Loop

AI made work cheaper to start than to continue

I kept losing useful AI work in plain sight.

The answer was in a tab.

The goal was in my head.

The source material was in my notes.

The review standard was implied.

The next action disappeared when my attention moved.

The AI had produced something useful, but the work itself had not become easier to continue.

That is the problem Smart Loop is designed to solve.

The answer is not the system.

Progress is what survives in the note where the work lives.

What is Smart Loop?

Smart Loop is a note-native workflow for turning delegated AI work into durable progress:

  1. Clarify the outcome, finish line, and selected context in one note.
  2. Delegate from that note and keep the delegated work recoverable from it.
  3. Compound the result by reviewing it into a stronger note or a usable deliverable.

The AI helps do the work.

The outcome note preserves the work state you need to judge the result, improve the note, evaluate what is trusted, and continue.

What your first Smart Loop creates

By the end of the first loop, one outcome note can show:

The result is not a perfect system.

It is a note you can reopen and use without reconstructing the goal, context, thread, and next step from memory.

Where Smart Plugins fit

Smart Plugins reduce friction without replacing your judgment.

The user remains the judge of what belongs, what is trusted, and what counts as progress.

See the full workflow in use

Callum shows related notes becoming selected context, that context becoming an AI assignment, and the useful work returning to the project note.

Complete your first loop in 5 emails

The first 5 emails build one outcome note through the complete Core Smart Loop:

  1. Give one outcome a home.
  2. Clarify what done looks like.
  3. Attach selected context.
  4. Keep delegated work recoverable.
  5. Review the result into durable progress.

Two continuation emails then show how to protect trusted context and move another outcome without losing the first.

Start your first Smart Loop

FAQs

Read the full Smart Loop FAQs.