Creative WriterObsidian, tuned for fiction.

Everything that touches the page lives in the editor. Everything about the work — progress, readability, the cast, the map of the story — lives in panels that Zen Mode hides.

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Story map

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Zen Mode, typewriter, focus fade

Hide the chrome, keep the line you are writing centred, veil the rest of the page by distance. Nothing but the sentence.

Paragraph rhythm

Each sentence of the current paragraph on a faint tint, cool → warm by its felt length. See monotony before you hear it.

Lenses

One reading pass at a time, everywhere, so a tint always means one thing — style checks, dialogue with its speakers, a character's accent, or your own overused words.

Style checks, offline

Clichés, passive voice, filter verbs, adverbs, repetition, nominalisations, weak verbs and metaphor candidates — rules, a tagger and concreteness norms, no network.

Writing desk

Words added and cut today, streaks, a 12-week heatmap, reading-ease and rhythm bands for the note, and a scene outline you can click.

Story map

One graph of a project — characters, places, things — with links you wrote, scenes shared, and what a local model reads between the lines.

Plot grid

Every scene down the side, your threads across the top, and in each cell what the thread is doing in the scene. Rowling's spreadsheet, with the cast folded into one column.

Story threads

The manuscript as one line and every promise, motif and fact as an arc over it — with the contradictions in red and the echoes heard offline.

Manuscript

The whole story on one page, folders as its outline, your comments beside it, and the editor following every paragraph you select.

Writer

The level above every story — the themes, premises, inspirations and voices you keep returning to, as a board of your own notes.

Local model, on command

Ollama on your machine reads a paragraph for contextual findings, a scene for myth and archetype, a chapter for relationships and references. Never by default.

Pairs with Harper

Harper edits the sentence — spelling, grammar, filler. Creative Writer edits the prose. The two are designed to overlap.