Editorialist

Outside feedback — alpha reader, editor, or AI — imported, planned, and reviewed scene by scene inside Obsidian.

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Entry 3/9 • 3 pending

done--done while Mrs. Bennet was stirring the fire. Elizabeth, equally

The controlled sweep

An integrated revision pass

Each suggestion lands beside the exact manuscript line. Compare the original with a proposed revision, read the editor’s reasoning, then decide what belongs in your draft.

Compare in context

Original and revised copy stay together, with an exact-match check before anything can move.

Understand the why

The rationale travels with the suggestion, so you never have to reconstruct it from a chat transcript.

Rewrite in your voice

Adopt the idea, change the wording, defer it, or move on. The manuscript changes only when you act.

The same review format works for AI, editors, and beta readers.

Pending

3 of 9

Original

done--done while Mrs. Bennet was stirring the fire. Elizabeth, equally

Replace with this version

Revised

done, while Mrs. Bennet stirred the fire. Elizabeth, equally

Why

Tighten the beat; the repetition slows a comic turn that should snap.

Exact match found in the manuscript.

M. Carroway • Developmental editor

M. Carroway • Editor

Mark as rewritten

What Editorialist does

Bring your own editor

Editorialist doesn’t ship an AI — it ships a format. Copy the review instructions and your scene into whatever model you trust: the chatbot subscription you already pay for, at full strength. Paste the formatted response back; Editorialist matches each suggestion to its scene, and the review sweep begins. No API key, no per-token bill, no model lock-in — and it works identically with a human editor or beta reader. Editorial judgment is frontier-model work: use the strongest model you have.

Editorial deliveries

Developmental notes — Act II

M. Carroway · Developmental editor

Received

Sep 26

Return by

Oct 9

Linked sources

1 review batch · 3 suggestions

0 of 3 decided

1 Editorialism · 4 items

0 of 4 done

7 open items

Plan this delivery

Revision plan

Finish Oct 2

7 days before the Oct 9 deadline

Deadline & capacity

120 min / weekday

Mon

120 min

Tue

60 min

Wed

60 min

Thu

60 min

Fri

60 min

Your work queue

6 sessions · 4.5–6 h

15 Wickham Introduced

Editorialism

· Mon · Part 1 of 2

45–60 min

15 Wickham Introduced

Editorialism

· Mon · Part 2 of 2

45–60 min

18 Netherfield Ball

Batch

· Tue

45–60 min

1 Bingley Arrives

Pending edit

· Wed

45–60 min

+ 2 more sessions · Thu–Fri

Revision plan

One ordered queue for pending edits, review batches, and Editorialism items. Set a deadline and working minutes for each weekday to get a finish forecast, or let Editorialist draft a schedule for an editor’s delivery.

Nothing applies until you act

Suggestions append as review blocks below the scene, and the sweep walks them one by one: accept, reject, defer — or rewrite the line as something entirely your own. Single-step undo while you’re still on the note, with conservative matching so nothing lands on the wrong text.

Cut files: back it up before it goes

Select any passage, right-click, and one click archives it to the scene’s cut file with metadata for context. The suggestion toolbar and the side panel reach the same file. Back a line up before you accept a cut if you want to keep a copy.

Editorialisms

Manuscript-wide structural checklists with scene-aware highlighting and revision-effort estimates.

Radial Timeline® synergy

Pending edits and Inquiry follow-ups flow straight into the review sweep, scene by scene, with the Inquiry brief shown in the toolbar. Works standalone too.

Contributor stats

Per-contributor acceptance rates and strengths profiles across your revision history.

Radial Timeline and Editorialist side by side in Obsidian, reviewing a Pride & Prejudice scene

Better together

In the Radial Timeline workflow, Editorialist is the revision half: pending edits and Inquiry follow-ups from Radial Timeline flow straight into the review sweep, and every accepted line lands back in the manuscript — right where the prose lives. No plugin lock-in either: Editorialist works standalone, with any manuscript and any feedback source.

How feedback lands. Where the fix happens.