1.3 L’Éditeur Web
The Writer is the garden’s press room: it’s right on the homepage for your first thought, and at /writer/your-note for every edit after. It edits raw markdown — what you see is the source, what you publish is the typeset page.
That’s a choice, not a limitation. A word processor hides the source and makes you fight the formatting. The Writer shows you exactly what the file is — because the file is yours, and you should never need our editor to read it.
Writing
- Markdown, with comforts — syntax highlighting, and your note’s frontmatter right at the top where it belongs
- Smart paste — paste rich text or HTML from anywhere; it lands as clean markdown
- Drop images anywhere — drag a file onto the page, it uploads and the markdown link appears where your cursor is
- Plant / Update — one button. New note → “Plant”. Existing note → “Update”. The URL never changes on update.
Design Controls
The Writer’s toolbar exposes the design tokens that matter most — ratio (type scale), measure (line width), color, font — so you can tune a note’s look while writing it. Under the hood these are just frontmatter tokens: everything you set visually is written into the note itself, plain and portable.
Want the full palette? The Customization Reference lists every token, and the theme: key gives you the curated themes.
Editing later
Three ways back into any of your notes:
/writer/your-slugdirectly::editfrom the Command Palette while reading the note- From Obsidian — if the note came from your vault, just edit the file and republish
The philosophy in one line
Other tools ask: how should this look? The Writer asks: what do you want to say? — and the temperaments handle the rest.
See Also
- Creating Your First Note
- Customization Reference
- The Obsidian Protocol — for vault-first writers