Stop juggling. Start doing.
Benny Chat pulls context from Obsidian, Todoist, Excalidraw—and even runs Perplexity searches—so one chat window can answer questions, update tasks, and spark new ideas in seconds.
🤖 Daily Assistant
Benny is a proactive assistant that reviews your notes and tasks to find one specific thing to help you with each day.
🌙 Every Night
Benny reviews your recent Obsidian notes and Todoist tasks, then performs one helpful action like organizing content or creating summaries.
🎯 One Focused Action
Rather than overwhelming you, the assistant picks one task and completes a helpful action while you sleep.
🔔 Morning Notifications
Wake up to actionable insights delivered right to your homepage - no need to remember to check or ask.
Example Daily Action:
I completed a task for you last night:
Action: I noticed "Q4 Planning" scattered across your notes and Todoist. I gathered all the related content and created a comprehensive summary for you to review...
📄 View the Q4 Planning summary
How It Works
Connect
Connect your Todoist, Obsidian GitHub repo, and add your Perplexity API key. You control your data and keys.
Chat
Chat naturally—e.g. "Give me a step-by-step plan to complete all of these chores"
Automate
Benny files new to-dos, tags priorities, and keeps them synced.
Review
Wake up to a daily digest of what you finished and what's next.
Note: You'll need to provide your own API keys for services like Perplexity. This keeps your costs transparent and gives you full control over your usage.
Why Benny Chat?
| Benny Chat | Typical AI Chatbots | |
|---|---|---|
| Task actions | Complete, reschedule, tag, and more across chats | Limited to chat context or random documents |
| Private context | Your Obsidian vault stays in a private GitHub repo you control | Vendor-locked storage |
| Multi-source answers | Personalized to you using your Notes ✚ tasks. Enhanced with Perplexity web info | Single source + Context & Chat Memory |
| Personal-productivity focus | Built for makers & indies | Generic consumer focus |
Feature Highlights
Wake up to completed helpful actions. Benny picks one task and does something useful while you sleep.
Get an ordered checklist with due-date suggestions based on your priorities and availability.
Benny returns the full Obsidian file plus a concise summary—and even displays linked Excalidraw sketches.
Use your own API keys for Perplexity and other services. You can push Benny however far you want.
Tired of rate-limits?
Benny intelligently shifts between available models—queueing queries, caching context, and selecting the most reliable and powerful model for the task at hand.
Community Voices
"This seems to be exactly what I'm looking for."
— CadenMcCrady
YouTube subscriber
Pricing & Access
- Everything in Discord plan
- Weekly essays & deep-dives
No free tier—your subscription keeps the servers running and the features shipping. You'll use your own API keys for services like Perplexity to maintain control of your usage.
Ready to give your productivity an assistant?