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Daily News Briefing

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Description

Category: 3rd Party Integrations
#news#ai-summary#google-gemini

The Daily News Briefing plugin brings AI-curated news summaries into your Obsidian workspace by integrating Google's Gemini model and custom search APIs. Users can define their own topics of interest, set up a daily schedule, and receive automated news briefings organized by topic with concise or in-depth summaries. Each briefing includes key developments, AI-generated analysis, and source links formatted for readability. The plugin provides fine-tuned control over content quality, source domains, result count, and API usage, while offering both automatic and manual generation modes.

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Latest Version

1.12.2
15 days ago

Changelog

Changelog

v1.12.2

  • Enhance code security and performance
  • Bump minimum Obsidian version to 1.11.4
See all version on GitHub

README file from

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Daily News Briefing for Obsidian

Official Website | Full Documentation

AI-powered daily news summaries delivered automatically to your Obsidian vault.

Features

  • 11 AI Pipelines + RSS: Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, Grok, Perplexity, OpenRouter, RSS Retriever
  • Auto-Scheduled: Wake up to fresh news every day
  • Custom Topics: Track exactly what matters to you
  • 6 Languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Chinese
  • Flexible Templates: 5 presets + custom templates with 25 placeholders
  • One-Click Access: Sidebar button for instant generation
  • Auto-Organization: Monthly subfolders keep your archive clean and organized

Quick Start

  1. Install from Obsidian Community Plugins
  2. Choose AI Provider (we recommend Gemini Agentic - it's free!)
  3. Add API Key(s) in settings
  4. Set Topics (e.g., "AI, Tesla, Bitcoin")
  5. Schedule Time (e.g., "08:00")

Done! News will generate automatically at your scheduled time.

Documentation

For detailed setup instructions, API guides, and advanced features:

→ Read Full Documentation

Quick API Setup

Free Option (Recommended)

Gemini - 1 free API key:

Paid Options (1 API Key)

Usage

Automatic: Set schedule time, plugin generates daily at that time

Manual:

  • Command Palette: Ctrl/Cmd + P → "Generate news now"
  • Sidebar: Click 📰 icon (opens today's news or creates it)

Troubleshooting

No news generated?

  • Use the Test Connection button in API Configuration settings to verify your key and model
  • Verify API keys (no extra spaces)
  • Check topics are configured
  • Try manual generation to see errors

API errors?

  • Use the Test Connection button to identify the exact error
  • Check API key validity
  • Verify account has credits/quota
  • Check full documentation

Changelog

v1.12.2

  • Enhance code security and performance
  • Bump minimum Obsidian version to 1.11.4

Previous Versions

1.12.1

  • New Features
    • Add Perpelxity Search as an alternative from unavaiable Google Search
    • Support all avaiable OpenRouter model as a text input
    • Add Test Connection button in API Configuration
  • Enhancement
    • Update default models: Claude Sonnet 4.6, Grok 4.3 and GPT 5.5

1.11.10

  • Add daily news content caching as a button, enabled by default
  • Improve generation failure check
  • Fix old news notes manual deletion

1.11.9

  • Add old news notes auto deletion function
  • Remove empty news folders after deletion

1.11.8

  • Fix metadata tags and source legacy generation issue

1.11.7

  • Fix secret key migration logic, and refactor to an optional button
  • Fix OpenRouter Claude model name
  • Improve daily news content caching logic

1.11.6

  • Fix Obsidian secret storage migration logic

1.11.5

  • Fix daily news content cache. Now it only caches when news generation succeeds
  • Remove duplicate notification and add more failure info
  • Add schedule time

1.11.4

  • Support Obsidian secret storage and add migration function. Requires update Obsidian to latest.

1.11.3

  • Support Gemini agentic search and list as the top recommendation

1.11.2

  • Refactor workflow pipeline and support migration logic
  • Rewrite docs.html

1.11.1

  • Merge metadata date and time, and add migration logic
  • Support monthly notes subfolder organization, and one-click reorganize

1.11.0

  • Support RSS retriever
  • Improve template setting and exmaple content display

1.10.2

  • Improve setting tab frontend
  • Template
    • Add copy button for the template note example
    • Fix template cannot find issue in subfolders
  • Cache
    • Fix "clear cache" button display issue
    • Automatically clear previous daily news content everyday
    • Fix cache content number display error

1.10.1

  • Reduce token cost
    • Fix AI-generated query cache
    • Add daily news cache
  • Fix duplicate toc title

1.10.0

  • Support Anthropic and OpenRouter models

1.9.1

  • Fix metadata settings

1.9.0

  • Support customizable template setting

1.8.2

  • Fix Grok agentic search

1.8.1

  • Add Grok support

1.8.0

  • Refactor provider architecture
    • Separated providers into agentic-search and search-then-summarize categories.
    • This improves code organization and makes it easier to add new providers in the future.
    • Add migration support.

1.7.7

  • Fix Google issues
    • Extend api timeout limit
    • Improve news number limit for custom search

1.7.6

  • Fix OpenAI issues
    • Update model to gpt-5-search-api
    • Fix openai base url error

1.7.5

  • Fix issues
    • Replace gemini-2.0-flash with gemini-2.5-flash
    • Enable GPT option
    • Update settings

1.7.4

  • Reduce token consumption for Gemini API due to Google new policy for free tier
    • Add prompt cache for query generation
    • Optimize prompt

1.7.3

  • Add OpenAI models support

1.7.2

  • Multi-language support (EN, FR, DE, ES, IT)
  • Improved error handling
  • Better metadata generation

v1.6.2

  • Toggle Analysis & Context section on/off

v1.6.1

  • Better failure handling for note generation

v1.6.0

  • AI-powered news filtering (replaces rule-based)

v1.5.1

  • Upgraded to Gemini Flash 2.0

v1.5.0

  • AI-generated search queries for better results
  • Enhanced Google API performance
  • Upgraded to Gemini Flash 2.5

v1.4.2

  • Enhanced Sonar API prompts

v1.4.1

  • Improved Sonar API performance
  • Simplified Sonar settings

v1.4.0

  • Added Perplexity Sonar support
  • API request throttling
  • Enhanced documentation

v1.3.1

  • Clearer settings names

v1.3.0

  • Added sidebar button for easy access
  • Auto-create or open today's news

v1.2.1

  • Prevent duplicate daily summaries
  • Updated documentation

v1.2.0

  • Performance optimizations
  • Better console logging

v1.1.1

  • Improved news filtering

v1.1.0

  • Simplified configuration
  • Better summarization and layout

v1.0.0

  • Initial release
  • Core news fetching and summarization

Contribute & Roadmap

Contributions welcome! We especially appreciate:

  • Bug reports and fixes
  • New language translations
  • Documentation improvements
  • Feature suggestions

Roadmap

  • More Providers - Support for more LLM options (Issue #6)
  • Cache Daily News Content - Avoid redundant generation
  • Cache AI-generated Queries - Reduce token cost
  • More Web Search Choices - Replacement of Google Search
  • Custom Domains - Support new Google Search

Contributors

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License

MIT License - Use freely and modify as needed

Full Documentation | Report Issues | GitHub

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