Finally found my writing software

I feel like Dorothy Gale from The Wizard of Oz. I’ve been everywhere looking for the perfect writing software and I’d already had it with me all along, I just hadn’t realized it.

Thanks to one comment from a completely unrelated question on Reddit, I discovered the Longform plug-in in Obsidian.

I’ve been using Obsidian to organize all of the historical research I do for my books, my books themselves (descriptions and links), and characters (each one of the 618 characters has its own page and I’m not done putting them in yet, I’ve still got three more series to go). What I love about Obsidian is that not only can I manage all of this information neatly in such a way that I can find anything within a few seconds, but everything is linked — characters to books and vice-versa and research to books and vice versa. I’ve even got some research linked to specific characters.

But it wasn’t until I was told about this Longform plugin that I realized that Obsidian was the ideal writing software.

Longform makes it easy to organize a novel (or screenplay). You create a scene template and then it uses that every time you create a new note from within the plugin (which has its own icon to get easily in and out of your book). It then keeps all the scenes you write in the order in which you write them, but if you need to…