u/Immediate-Repair5427

hey everyone. Export to Rodin just went live in the community plugin directory (v1.2.3) and i wanted to share it here properly.

it reads your vault and surfaces an intellectual fingerprint. Recurring themes, the questions you keep returning to, the mental models you reach for, your influences, your blind spots, your single core question, a three-word archetype. Underneath it runs a 12-dimensional cognitive signature that measures how you structure thought (not what you think about) plus a direction axis that names what you are reaching toward next.

I built it because there were 5000+ notes in my vault and i had no idea what they added up to. Each note was useful when i wrote it. The vault as a whole was just sitting there. What changed was treating it as an instrument i could query about myself, not a knowledge base i was supposed to curate.

The plugin does that in a one-click flow. Select your most recent files, capped at 60k characters, send to the engine, get back a fingerprint and a public profile at rodin.fyi/p/your-id.

A few notes given the conversations happening here this week about plugin security:

- The plugin sends your selected text to Rodin's API for processing. The source writing is not stored, only the fingerprint derived from it. No third-party tracking. No analytics inside the plugin. You get a private management link the first time, which is the only thing that can update or delete your profile. No account, no password.

- About 262 fingerprints have been mapped on the platform so far. Roughly a quarter are canon figures (Plato, Montaigne, Hume, Nietzsche, others), the rest are organic users. The matching engine shows you the people whose fingerprints overlap with yours, which is the part that surprises people most when they look at the citation map.

A few things i am genuinely unsure about, and would love any thoughts from the community!

-Does the fingerprint land for vault-based writers, or is the signal too noisy when notes are atomized into the obsidian style rather than long-form essays. Is "find people who think like you" actually something this community wants, or is the private vault model the whole reason people use obsidian in the first place. And does sending your selected files to an external API feel like a deal-breaker even with the source-not-stored guarantee.

Plugin search: "Export to Rodin." Repo: github.com/peacewalkerT/obsidian-rodin-export. Platform: rodin.fyi.

Happy to answer anything, and if you try it id genuinely like to know what the fingerprint got right and where it missed.

I tried digital detoxing and feel a lot less overtstimulated, but couldn't deal with the overwhelming loneliness that I've struggled with since I was very little.

I spent a lot of time without my family and parents abroad and have always felt incredibly alone and lonely, not like in a depressing way(been there) but at least in the empty, hollow type of wanting someone to lean on type of way. It could be that I'm an incredibly introspective person and like to spend time thinking a lot and going on strolls to clear up my thoughts. after the digital detoxing and such, I feel more clarity in my thoughts, and the loneliness and emptiness has been replaced by a desire to want to find and forge meaningful connections, to have conversations that have no answer or solution to it with people who are thinking similar or would offer a new avenue of thought etc. I realised that I usually get this from reading, especially literature and classics but a lot of the non-fictions as well if they're written well enough.

I started with Obsidian, trying to get the daily notes to open once i open the app, then trying to jot down thoughts in it. it could just be about my day or about a thought that I had. Then I settled on getting LLMs to give me breakdowns of my thoughts across a few days and then challenge it, feed it a few sources from stuff I read and watch with the web clipper and synthesise any new insights and see any blind spots there could be.

It got a bit repetitive, and I've found it incredibly helpful to use Rodin, which is an app that lets you paste any amount of your own writing (doesn't keep it of course) and surfaces your intellectual fingerprint and dimensions before showing people who think like you. honestly the thing that hit me when i used it wasn't the fingerprint itself, though that was interesting in its own right. The blind spots layer landed harder than i expected, the way it named avoidances i hadn't seen in my own writing. The thing that hit me was clicking through to the people whose fingerprints sat closest to mine. Some i had heard of, some i hadn't. None of them follow me anywhere, and i don't follow them. The follow graph wouldn't have found us. We are all in completely different professional contexts. But the shape of how we move through ideas is similar enough that reading their writing felt like reading something i could have written but didn't, or had been trying to. 

I don't think Rodin solves loneliness. the loneliness i carried into the detox and the loneliness i still carry are not the kind of thing an app fixes. But it made the search for the right people feel possible in a way the follow graph never did. It is the difference between scanning a crowded room hoping you'll catch someone's eye, and walking into a room where someone has already put up a sign that says "this is the shape of my mind, find me if yours is close." i don't think it will be for everyone. but if any of this resonates, the fingerprint is worth looking at, even just to see who else has been quietly thinking near you.