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A local-first editorial review workspace for Obsidian.
Editorialist imports structured revision notes — from human editors, beta readers, or AI — into the manuscript you are already editing, matches suggestions conservatively against note content, and keeps every manuscript change explicit and author-controlled.
Editorialist is designed to integrate tightly with the Radial Timeline companion plugin — scene ID insertion, the upcoming community editorial feedback features, and more — while remaining fully functional on its own. It is a desktop-only plugin.
Editorialist is a local-only system — it runs entirely inside your vault, with no account or service behind it. You handle the transfer yourself: copy the formatting instructions out to your AI, and bring the formatted response back. Your manuscript changes only when you accept a suggestion, and anything you cut along the way is archived to per-scene cut files rather than discarded.
- Copy the formatting instructions from the review launcher — they include the format specification and your book's scene IDs.
- Get suggestions. Paste the instructions into your AI conversation along with the prose. For human feedback, collect your reviewer's notes in any form — a photo of a marked-up page, a document, an email — and have an AI shape them into a batch using the same instructions.
- Import the batch through the launcher; the suggestions land in the targeted scenes as review blocks.
- Walk the guided review sweep — accept, reject, rewrite, or defer each suggestion.
- Finish. Per-scene progress, contributor stats, and revision history update as each sweep completes.
| Page | What's there |
|---|---|
| Getting Started | Install, commands, and your first review sweep |
| Review Panel | The main working surface — sessions, the suggestion toolbar, statuses |
| Editorialisms Panel | Structural guidance documents and the checklist workflow |
| Importing Reviews | The block format and Editorialism file format — what your AI produces and the launcher imports |
| Settings Reference | All three settings tabs: Core, Contributors, Configuration |
| Radial Timeline Integration | What the companion plugin adds, how the coupling works, where it's heading |
| Roadmap | What's planned, in rough order |
Source-available, non-commercial software license. Free for personal, educational, and professional creative work — including manuscripts and other commercial creative output produced with the plugin. Commercial use of the software itself, redistribution, and forks for public distribution require written permission. See LICENSE for full terms.