Nova

Nova – AI Writing Editor for Obsidian

AI writing editor, native to Obsidian. Sharpen your prose, refine selected text, write at the cursor, and review local clarity checks. Not a generator. An editor.

Use the local Ollama API, OpenAI-compatible endpoints like LM Studio, or your own API keys for Claude, OpenAI, and Gemini. Nova has no AI proxy or telemetry service: conversations stay in your vault, and cloud requests go directly to the provider you configure.

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How It Works

Writing Dashboard

Vault-wide writing quality scores with a composite score across four pillars — clarity, conciseness, variety, and discipline. Per-document breakdown, sortable table, and historical trend sparklines that track your improvement over time. Command palette → "Open writing dashboard."

All local, zero AI costs, free for all users.

Prose Linter

Sharper prose, native to Obsidian. Open Prose Linter from the command palette and it appears in its own right-side review pane, styled like Nova's sidebar. Nova adds filled, category-colored highlights while the pane is active and flags long and very long sentences, passive voice, adverbs, weak intensifiers, qualifiers, complex words, repeated words, and repeated phrases. Rows jump to the exact issue; safe local replacements appear only when Nova can verify the current text still matches.

Prose Linter is free, local, Markdown-aware, and does not require an account, API key, or Supernova license. It is not a grammar checker.

Writing Analysis

Readability score, word and sentence counts, reading time, passive voice percentage, adverb density, and weak intensifier detection — running locally with zero AI costs. Writing Analysis is the metrics engine; Prose Linter is the visual review pane for highlights and issue-by-issue editing. To keep editing responsive, Nova analyzes the current note as a snapshot, marks results stale after edits, and refreshes when you click Analyze.

**Note:** Writing analysis is English-only. No