Galley

Beautiful, book-like manuscript reading for Obsidian.

See your writing as it deserves to be read. Galley transforms your markdown into a paginated, typeset-quality reading experience — right inside Obsidian.

Features

• Book-like typography — serif fonts, justified text, drop caps, scene break ornaments, running chapter headers
• 4 reading themes — Warm Ivory, Cool White, Sepia, Midnight
• Auto-generated table of contents — smooth-scroll chapter navigation
• Word count — displayed on the title page
• Live updates — re-renders as you edit in another pane
• Obsidian-native rendering — embeds, callouts, and other plugins work inside Galley
• Fully configurable — font family, font size, line height, page width

Usage

1. Open a markdown file
2. Run "Open Galley view" from the command palette (Cmd/Ctrl+P)
3. Or click the book icon in the left ribbon

Galley opens a reading pane that tracks your active file. Write in one pane, read in the other.

Settings

• Theme — Warm Ivory, Cool White, Sepia, Midnight
• Font family — any CSS font stack
• Font size — 14px to 28px
• Line height — 1.2 to 2.4
• Page width — 480px to 900px
• Show word count — toggle
• Show table of contents — toggle

Installation

From Obsidian Community Plugins

1. Open Settings > Community Plugins
2. Search for "Galley"
3. Install and enable

Manual Installation

1. Download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from the latest release
2. Create a folder galley in your vault's .obsidian/plugins/ directory
3. Copy the three files into it
4. Enable "Galley" in Settings > Community Plugins

Development

npm install
npm run dev      # watch mode
npm run build    # production build
npm test         # run tests

License

MIT