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Deep Ask Plugin Quick Start Guide

Purchase link: Deep Ask

#📖 Introduction

Deep Ask is a powerful Obsidian AI chat plugin designed to enhance your knowledge management experience. By integrating multiple AI models, Deep Ask can understand your note content, providing intelligent question-answering, content generation, and knowledge retrieval.

#✨ Main Features

• 🤖 Multi-model support：Support GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, Qwen, etc.
• 📁 Smart context：Automatically understand your note structure and content
• 🏷️ Tag integration：Context collection based on tags
• 💬 Streaming conversation：Real-time response, support conversation history management
• 🔄 Multi-session management：Support creating multiple conversation topics
• 📎 File attachment：Support adding note files as context
• 🌍 Multi-language support：Support Chinese and English interfaces

#🚀 Quick Start

#Step 1: Install Prerequisites

Deep Ask depends on the Dataview plugin, please ensure it is installed and enabled:

1. Open Obsidian settings
2. Enter the "Community plugins" section
3. Search and install Dataview
4. Enable Dataview plugin

#Step 2: Install Deep Ask Plugin

1. Download the plugin file to the Obsidian plugin directory, usually in your repository's .obsidian/plugins directory
2. Restart Obsidian
3. Enable Deep Ask in the plugin list

#Step 3: Activate the Plugin

1. Open the plugin settings page
2. Enter the "Activation" tab
3. Enter your account email and activation code

#⚙️ Configuration Guide

#AI Model Configuration

In the "AI Model" tab of the settings page, you can configure the supported AI services:

Here is an example of configuring the DeepSeek model:

#🔵 DeepSeek Configuration

Fill in the API Key, and then click the AI Model, and select the specific model to enable:

You can also customize the AI model configuration:

#🟢 Custom Configuration

You can customize the AI model configuration, supporting the following parameters:

• Base URL：The base URL of the AI service
• API Key：The API Key of the AI service
• AI Model：The supported models of the AI service

#AI Context Configuration

• Maximum conversation rounds：Set the number of conversation history to retain
• Temperature：Set the randomness of AI replies, the lower the more stable, the higher the more random
• Exclude files with matching tags：Generally used to filter periodic notes and template notes. The former has already queried flash notes in periodic notes through tags (duplicate context), and the latter are various template notes (invalid context)
• Use current opened file only：Only use the currently opened file as context, ignore all other files opened in the background
• LifeOS Integration Config：Configure file search strategy when using LifeOS with AI features
  • Theme Note File Search：Select how AI searches theme-related files
    • Include index files only：Only include index files
    • Include entire folder：Include entire folder
  • Recursive Sub-theme Search：Enable recursive search for sub-themes within the selected theme tags

#Conversation Settings

• Maximum conversation rounds：Set the number of conversation history to retain
• Temperature：Set the randomness of AI replies, the lower the more stable, the higher the more random

#🎯 Usage Guide

#Launching the Chat Interface

There are several ways to open the AI chat:

1. Toolbar button：Click the Deep Ask AI icon in the sidebar
2. Command Palette：Ctrl/Cmd + P search "Deep Ask AI Chat"
3. Shortcut：Can be customized in settings

#Basic Conversation

1. Enter your question in the chat interface at the bottom
2. Select the AI model (if multiple are configured)
3. Click Send or press Enter to send
4. AI will reply to your question in real-time

#Advanced Features

#📎 File Attachment

• Trigger file search by typing /, select the file to add to the context
• The opened file will be automatically added to the context

#🏷️ Tag Retrieval

• Trigger tag search by typing #, select the tag to add to the context
• DeepAsk will automatically search for all records in the vault, including tasks, flash notes, and files with the selected tag

#💬 Session Management

• Click "+" to create a new conversation
• Each conversation manages the context independently

#✏️ Message Editing

• Hover to display the edit button
• Support editing the sent message, triggering AI to regenerate the reply
• Support clicking the regenerate button next to the message, triggering AI to regenerate the reply

#💾 Save AI Reply

• Click the plus button next to the message, and the AI reply will be appended to the current note
• Click the download button in the lower right corner of the dialog, and the entire conversation will be downloaded as a Markdown file

#💡 Random Prompt

In the blank conversation, Deep Ask will display commonly used suggestions:

• /2025-08-22 Summarize today's diary?
• #SwapHouse What are the good and bad things I did?
• #HistoryCycle Summarize this tag?

#🛠️ Troubleshooting

#Common Issues

Q: AI does not reply or reply incorrectly? A: Check if the API Key is correct, and the network connection is normal

Q: Unable to find related note content?
A: Check if the path filtering is set correctly, and check if the Dataview plugin is working properly

Q: Plugin startup failed? A: Check if the Obsidian version meets the requirements, and the Dataview plugin is installed

Q: Activation code invalid? A: Check if the email and activation code are correct, and contact the developer for support

#Log Debugging

1. Open the developer tools (Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + I)
2. View the error information in the Console tab
3. Troubleshoot based on the error information

#📚 Best Practices

1. Organize knowledge structure：Establish a clear folder and tag system to facilitate AI retrieval
2. Use context reasonably：Select related files and tags to improve answer quality
3. Classify conversation：Create independent conversations for different topics

#🔥 More Features in Development

We're constantly working on new features to enhance your experience.

New features are constantly being added! For the complete changelog, please visit Changelog.