The Web Writer

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:

1. /writer/your-slug directly
2. ::edit from the Command Palette while reading the note
3. 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