Obsidian Writers: Turn Your Editor’s Notes Into a Revision Schedule

An editor's notes arrive as a bundle: a letter about the book, notes on the scenes, and a date for your questions. Editorialist, the companion plugin to Radial Timeline, turns that round into a plan you can finish, a day at a time. The decisions stay yours. In 1814, Jane Austen sent her niece Anna a line edit with its reason attached: "I do not object to the thing, but I cannot bear the expression." Two hundred years later, that is still how a round arrives. Editorialist is in Obsidian's Community plugins → https://radialtimeline.com/go/editori... --- 00:00 Jane Austen, editor (1814) 01:03 An editor's round — and Editorialist 01:28 Editorialist = three tools 02:21 The editor's round 03:00 Notes on the scenes 04:21 Plan the round 05:25 Day by day 06:07 Your decisions 07:03 Bring the notes in 07:42 Epilogue — words from the classics --- IN THIS VIDEO • Three tools — review batches (line edits with suggested revisions), Editorialisms (whole-book guidance), and Pending Edits (notes in each scene's properties) • Your editor — the editor engagement keeps the agreed dates, the day the round comes back, and the date your questions are due • Bring the notes in — copy the formatting instructions and give them, with your editor's notes, to the AI you choose; it sorts every note, and Editorialist matches each passage to your manuscript • Line edits on their scenes — the original, the revision, and the reason, credited to your editor • Editorialisms — a checklist for the whole book, with anchors to the passages each note is about • Editorial deliveries — each import files itself under its editor and their role; add the day it arrived and the day your questions are due • Plan this delivery — a developmental revision, a copy-edit pass, or a mix; estimates against the high end, big tasks split into sessions, laid out across real days • The revision plan — progress across the book, the work between you and the deadline, and what today holds • Finish session — the plan moves the session to finished and recalculates the hours left • When life happens, adjust the remaining schedule — finished work stays finished, and what's left moves to the next available days • Accept, rewrite, defer, or reject — nothing changes in your manuscript until you say so • The checklist — mark each note as you go, and ask a question right in the scene, for your editor or the AI of your choice --- YOUR MANUSCRIPT Your manuscript stays in plain files, on your machine. Editorialist makes no network calls and holds no keys. It's a format; choose any capable AI model for best results. The editor in this video, Morgan Lee, is a stand-in. The manuscript is the Pride and Prejudice demo vault. --- WORDS FROM THE CLASSICS Jane Austen, letters to Anna Austen (10–18 August and 28 September 1814) An old college tutor's advice, quoted by Samuel Johnson in James Boswell's Life of Johnson (1791) Jane Austen, letter to Cassandra Austen (29 January 1813) Jane Austen, letter to James Stanier Clarke (1 April 1816) --- DOWNLOAD & RESOURCES Editorialist plugin → https://radialtimeline.com/go/ed-code Editorialist guide → https://radialtimeline.com/go/ed-guide Radial Timeline plugin → https://radialtimeline.com/go/ed-time... Website → https://radialtimeline.com/go/ed-site Community → https://radialtimeline.com/go/ed-comm... Works inside Obsidian → https://radialtimeline.com/go/ed-obsi... --- #novelwriting #editing #revision #writingprocess #obsidian #radialtimeline #editorialist