Obsidian plugins: Inkswell
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The developer says…
A complete workbench for novelists. Plan with beat sheets and a story bible, draft with sprints and goals, revise with an audit toolkit, and prepare to publish.
A local-first writer’s suite for long-form fiction in Obsidian. Plan, draft, track, revise, and prepare to publish with Inkswell. My goal is to build the best end-to-end plugin toolkit for writers, especially those working on large series longform projects.
Features
Five pipeline phases – Home, Plan, Write, Revise and Publish — plus two cross-cutting tools, Codex and Track, that you can reach for at any stage.
- Home: Your books as cover cards on shelves (one per series), a cover-art hero card (logline/theme/word-target progress), a nestable scene tree, multiple drafts per story, ideas inbox plus quick capture, and a series dialog for multi-book worlds.
- Plan: Overview fields, beat sheets (seven templates, and structure — the outline tree, a Kanban board, and a plotline × chapter grid, behind one tree, board or grid switcher.
- Write: A distraction-light live-preview editor, writing prompts, fast-drafting inline markers, and timed sprints.
- Revise: An audit toolkit, a unified to-dos worklist (draft markers left in prose and logged revision decisions), and manuscript analysis.
- Publish: A configurable compile/export pipeline plus a self-publishing checklist and launch planner.
- Codex: A story bible — characters, locations, worlds, factions, items, events and concepts, with scene linking and mention auto-detect.
- Track: Word goals, streaks, a GitHub-style heatmap, lifetime records, a deadline pace calculator, and milestone zones.
Our view
Having said “other writing tools… add every possible feature under the sun”, Inkswell doesn’t fall short of including every feature under the sun. In its favour, it doesn’t include AI. Inkswell sees itself as a tool to aid your writing, not a plugin that’s going to write your story for you, and we commend it for that.
Inkswell provides a sample vault to try out.