Installation

Installing Naidis is simple. You need both the Obsidian plugin and the Core binary.

Requirements

• Obsidian: v1.4.0 or higher
• OS: macOS, Windows, Linux
• Optional:
  • yt-dlp: For YouTube transcript extraction
  • tesseract: For PDF OCR
  • ollama: For local AI

Step 1: Purchase and Download Plugin

1. Purchase from Gumroad ($29 one-time)
2. Unzip the downloaded naidis.zip
3. Copy the naidis folder to the .obsidian/plugins/ folder of your Obsidian vault

Step 2: Activate Plugin

1. Obsidian Settings → Community plugins
2. Find "Naidis" and activate it
3. The plugin will automatically download the Core binary

Step 3: First Run

Press Cmd+Shift+P (Mac) or Ctrl+Shift+P (Windows/Linux) to open the Command Palette.

Installing Optional Dependencies

yt-dlp (YouTube transcript extraction)

# macOS
brew install yt-dlp

# Windows
winget install yt-dlp

# Linux
pip install yt-dlp

Tesseract (PDF OCR)

# macOS
brew install tesseract tesseract-lang

# Windows
# Download from https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesseract/wiki

# Linux (Ubuntu/Debian)
sudo apt install tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-kor tesseract-ocr-jpn

Ollama (Local AI)

# macOS/Linux
curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh

# Download model
ollama pull llama3.2

Troubleshooting

Core binary does not start

Press the "Check for Updates" button in Settings → Naidis to re-download Core.

YouTube transcript extraction failed

Check if yt-dlp is installed:

yt-dlp --version

AI features not working

Check if Ollama is running:

ollama list

Next Steps

• How to use YouTube module
• How to use AI Chat
• Configuration Guide