Murmuration Writing Companion V2 is now available
Murmuration Writing Companion V2 has been released.
This is the largest update to the Obsidian plugin so far. It brings manuscript structure, Story World management, continuity review, chronology, references and visualisation into a more coherent authoring environment.
V2 was developed while working on the PRIME trilogy, but its purpose is broader: to help writers manage increasingly complex manuscripts without forcing their work into a separate database or proprietary writing application.
Your manuscript remains a collection of ordinary Markdown files in your own Obsidian vault.
Download Murmuration Writing Companion V2 from GitHub
What V2 helps you do
See the structure of the whole manuscript
The Manuscript Navigator presents Books, Parts and Scenes in reading order, including Scenes placed directly beneath a Book.
Benefit: reorganise and inspect a long manuscript without relying on folder names, filename prefixes or memory.
Bring an existing manuscript under structured management
The preparation workflow can recognise an existing manuscript, preview the changes it proposes and add the minimum metadata needed for reliable ordering.
Preparation includes an immediate Undo action.
Benefit: adopt the plugin without rebuilding the manuscript or surrendering control over your files.
Build a connected Story World
Characters, locations, organisations, technologies, events, references and other entities can be created and connected through explicit relationships.
Benefit: keep the people, places, institutions and ideas behind a novel consistent across multiple Books.
Explore the Story World visually
The Story World Graph shows relationships between entities, together with evidence from the manuscript.
It can distinguish entity types, provisional relationships and manuscript-source connections.
Benefit: understand how the fictional world fits together and trace each connection back to the Scenes that support it.
Review continuity using explicit evidence
Continuity Review examines manuscript and Story World evidence within the selected Book.
It highlights issues such as unresolved references, chronology problems, missing context and conflicting information.
Benefit: find continuity problems before they reach an editor or reader, while retaining the evidence needed to judge whether each observation matters.
Track chronology
Dated Scenes and Events can be compared across the manuscript and Story World.
Benefit: identify impossible sequences, unexplained gaps and events appearing in the wrong order.
Understand where entities matter
Entity impact reporting shows where a Story World entity is referenced across the manuscript.
Benefit: assess whether a character, organisation, place or technology is properly introduced, sustained and resolved.
Maintain references and source material
Reference entities can record authors, titles, journals, publishers, publication details and links, then connect those sources to manuscript material.
Benefit: keep research provenance alongside the writing rather than in a separate system.
Generate a printable entity index
The Entity Index report can include selected Story World categories and links back to relevant Scenes.
Benefit: produce a useful editorial or reference document directly from the vault.
Keep editorial work inside the vault
Editorial notes, review modes and supporting data are stored locally and handled with atomic writes, backups and recovery safeguards.
Benefit: retain ownership of both manuscript and editorial data.
Start safely
Project Readiness inspects a vault and explains whether it is ready, needs preparation or contains a structural conflict.
Inspection is read-only. Storage is not created until the first genuine editorial change.
Benefit: understand what the plugin has found before allowing it to change anything.
Tested on Linux and Windows
V2 has undergone automated and interactive validation across:
- clean installation;
- existing manuscript preparation;
- immediate Undo;
- stale preview protection;
- forced write rollback;
- editorial storage failure and recovery;
- upgrades from the previous public release;
- malformed and newer-version storage protection;
- real manuscript migration;
- Linux and Windows Obsidian environments.
The release includes the plugin files, documentation and example vaults needed to explore the workflow.
View the V2 release and download the files
Murmuration Writing Companion is open-source software from Murmuration Press.