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Editorialist turns outside feedback into a controlled revision workflow inside Obsidian.
It is for writers who get notes from human editors, beta readers, or AI and want to work through those notes without losing control of the manuscript. Editorialist imports review batches into the scene notes you are already editing, highlights each target passage, and asks you to accept, reject, rewrite, defer, or archive the change.
The plugin does not rewrite your prose on import. Suggestions are stored as review blocks until you decide what to do with them. Accepted cuts can be backed up to per-scene cut files, and completed sweeps update revision history, contributor stats, and per-scene progress.
Editorialist can use Radial Timeline for active-book scope and scene IDs, but it also works on its own.
- Turning AI, editor, or beta-reader feedback into reviewable suggestions.
- Walking a revision pass scene by scene instead of managing loose notes.
- Keeping every manuscript change explicit and reversible during the session.
- Tracking reviewer contributions, accepted suggestions, and revision progress.
- Keeping structural guidance separate from line-level edits through Editorialisms.
| Object | What you get | When you get it | Where it lives |
|---|---|---|---|
| Review batch | The AI's formatted response: line edits, cuts, moves, condenses, expands, and memos | After you send the formatting instructions and manuscript text to an AI, or ask an AI to convert human notes | On your clipboard until you import it |
| Review block | The imported part of a review batch for one scene | When you import a review batch through the launcher | Appended to the bottom of each targeted scene note |
| Editorialism | A structural checklist or manuscript-level directive set | When a reviewer gives broad guidance that should be worked over time | A separate markdown file under Editorialist/<Book>/
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- 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; Editorialist appends review blocks to the bottom of the targeted scene notes.
- 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 | 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 | Review batches, review blocks, and Editorialism files |
| Settings Reference | All three settings tabs: Core, Contributors, Configuration |
| Radial Timeline Integration | What the companion plugin adds |
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.