Editorialist

What it does

Editorialist is a local-first editorial review workspace for Obsidian. It 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.

How it behaves

• No hidden network requests, no account, no telemetry.
• Notes are only modified when you explicitly import a batch, apply a suggestion, clean review blocks, or run a maintenance action.
• The vault file list is read (via Obsidian's standard metadata APIs) only to build the scene inventory and review registry — file contents never leave your vault.
• The clipboard is touched only on your explicit action: copying the reviewer template out, or importing a review batch you've copied.
• Bulk maintenance actions require confirmation.
• Backup export writes contributor + revision metadata only — never manuscript text.

Commands

• Open review launcher — opens the launcher modal to import a review batch or start pending-edits review.
• Open review panel — opens the review side panel for the active note.
• Review pending edits in active book — starts the pending-edits review flow across the active book.
• Backup selection to cut file — copies the selected text into the scene's cut file without changing the manuscript. Also available from the editor right-click menu when text is selected.

Editorialist ships no default hotkeys. Assign your own from Obsidian's hotkey settings.

License

Editorialist Source-Available Non-Commercial 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 and NOTICE for full terms.