Track Changes

Review CriticMarkup suggestions in an Obsidian side panel. Accept, reject, or reply.

About

Every CriticMarkup mark in the active note becomes a card in a side panel (and is also styled inline). Accept, reject, reply, or delete the whole thread, all changes are written straight back into the markdown as {++…++}, {--…--}, {~~old~>new~~}, {>>comment<<}, {==highlight==}. No sidecar state.

For authoring CriticMarkup inside Obsidian yourself, use Fevol/obsidian-criticmarkup. It's a full-featured general-purpose plugin.

Usage with AI

The intended usecase: AI agents review and comment essays and texts. This plugin is for the human side: reviewing, applying, denying, replying.

docs/SKILL.md is a starting-point reviewer prompt, adapt it to your own reviewing needs. It explicitly forbids the AI from writing any kind of text. All text is human-written. The AI just finds issues, errors and challenges arguments.

Features

• All five CriticMarkup forms: {++add++}, {--del--}, {~~old~>new~~}, {>>comment<<}, {==highlight==}
• Threaded comments — adjacent {>>...<<} blocks with no blank line between them group into one thread
• Multi-author support — each <Name>: prefix gets its own color; well-known AI names get brand-ish hues
• Accept / reject per suggestion; delete per message or per thread; reply inline
• Finalize for publish — resolves all remaining markup in one pass
• Reading mode renders either the accepted preview or raw side-by-side
• Markup inside code blocks is left alone

Commands

Command	What it does
Open review panel	Opens the side panel for the active note
Finalize for publish	Accepts all insertions, removes all deletions and comments

Install

Community Plugins → search "Track Changes", or install from community.obsidian.md/plugins/track-changes.

Manual: drop main.js, manifest.json, styles.css into <vault>/.obsidian/plugins/track-changes/ and enable in settings.

Build

npm install && npm run build

License

MIT.