0.54.0

0.54.0 (2026-10-17)

Added

• A manuscript export style has a “Header on the first page” choice: set it to “Left off” and the first page of the text has no header, in the Word file and the PDF; the next page still says 2.
• A note's “title” property is shown in place of its file name in the binder views, the side panes, find and replace, the file explorer and an export's headings; editing a shown name changes the title and leaves the file alone. The property's name can be changed under Property names in settings.
• Binder settings: one window for what a binder keeps about itself (book details, goal, labels, statuses, the template for new notes and its calendar), from More options, the file explorer's menu on a binder, or the command Open binder settings. A binder can have its own labels and statuses in place of the vault's.

Changed

• Binders' settings are shorter and grouped like Obsidian's own: labels, statuses, focus mode, export folders and property names each open on a page of their own and say at a glance what is on it; how words are counted is now a dropdown, and Words to write today is under Writing.
• Book details and the calendar are pages of Binder settings now (Export's Book details... and Edit calendar... open them there), and Edit labels... opens the binder's Labels page. On a phone, Open binder note is in Binder settings, on its Book page.

Fixed

• Tooltips no longer pop up over the timeline, the word count, the Revision pane, the Export window, dialogs' fields and the settings; icons with no name beside them still say what they are.
• The progress window no longer flashes as a small empty dialog before the full page: it opens with the record already drawn.
• A note whose properties begin with many blank or comment lines with Windows line endings no longer freezes Obsidian.
• A note named "proto" or "constructor", or such a name in another device's history file, is now recorded as a note and no longer upsets Obsidian or other plugins.
• A Longform project's ignoredFiles pattern with many wildcards no longer freezes Obsidian.
• Find in a binder no longer freezes Obsidian on a note with a long run of backticks.
• A style file with a very long run of spaces in a line no longer freezes Obsidian when it is added or read.
• Importing a document with a very long run of spaces no longer freezes Obsidian.
• Importing a text or Markdown file with a very long run of spaces inside a line no longer freezes Obsidian.
• A binder whose calendar has a leap rule that takes days away no longer freezes Obsidian on "Shift story dates"; the rule is reported as one Binders can't read.
• Links in an imported Word or rich text file are kept only when they go to a web page or an email address, as in the other importers, and an address can no longer break the note's text around it.
• A comment in the margin of an imported Word, OpenDocument, RTF or Scrivener file that has percent signs at its edges or several in a row now stays one hidden comment, instead of showing part of its text in the note.
• In the manuscript, the drag handles that plugins such as Dragger draw left of the text are no longer cut off; the text stays where it was.
• Importing a rich text file with a long run of spaces in a list's number, or a Markdown file whose footnotes move between scenes, no longer freezes Obsidian.
• Importing a file with a long run of * _ ~ or ` marks inside a line no longer freezes Obsidian.
• Find in a binder no longer freezes Obsidian on a note with many <!-- comments that never close.
• A calendar whose years average no days no longer makes "Shift story dates" write a date with no year or day in it; those scenes are left where they are.
• Find in a binder no longer freezes Obsidian on a long line of square brackets.
• A note's title now shows in the file explorer whether or not binder order is on, and in the Progress window, the snapshot windows and an exported Scrivener project.
• Binder settings: no ring on a page you didn't choose, every intro the same small line, a phone's list opens with no page chosen, and the Goal page refuses a target below the book's words; the Scrivener export, the progress record and import use a binder's own labels and statuses.