How do I...?¶
One recipe per task. Each links to the page that has the commands and what they print. If you have never used esbi-cli, do Getting started first.
Install and set up¶
- Install it on macOS, from a wheel or from source
- Choose a model, and install Ollama or LM Studio
- Use my Claude subscription, my ChatGPT plan or an API key
- Switch to another model
- Write the notes in English or Spanish, rebuild old notes in the new language or add a language
- Compare models on my own notes
- Use a model on another machine
- Update it with
sb update, and see how it tells me a new version exists - Update it by hand or uninstall it, and see what is left behind
- Turn the update check off, and see what it sends
Get things in¶
- Add a link
- Add a PDF
- Add a whole folder of PDFs
- Add a Markdown clip
- Add a YouTube video
- Add an image or a scanned PDF (OCR), and turn reading images on or off
- Add an email, with its images and the pages its links lead to
- Save pages behind a login, or LinkedIn and Reddit posts
- Import an older vault
- Know what happens when I add the same thing twice
Run and manage the queue¶
- See what is queued
- Run a few at a time
- Retry a source that failed
- Forget a source and add it again
- Rebuild old notes with
sb reingest - Run it every night on macOS (other systems are not supported; the cron line is for people who try anyway)
Read and ask¶
- Open today's index and tick what I have read
- Edit a note
- Ask a question and keep the answer
- Find notes whose words differ from my question (hybrid search)
- Measure how well retrieval works with
sb eval - Check the wiki's health with
sb lint - Write a summary on top of concept pages with
sb consolidateand handle merge suggestions - Read the output of
sbfrom a program (--json) - Export a website
Keep it safe¶
- Keep email local
- Back up the vault, with or without git
- Restore the vault
- Move to a new Mac
- Use it without Obsidian
- Use it offline