CST Notes

Private source reviewed

CST Notes organizes surgical technologist notes in Obsidian with a Specialty → Surgeon → Case hierarchy. Cases remain ordinary Markdown files in the user’s vault, and the plugin includes templates, surgeon profiles, glove and gown data, navigation, migrations, reference workflows, and mobile support.

Privacy and data

CST Notes is designed for local, offline vault use. It has no external processing service or telemetry and does not require file access outside the active Obsidian vault. Obsidian's own community-plugin update checks are enabled on supported versions; updates are not installed automatically. Import from clipboard reads the clipboard only when pressed. No real surgeon records, cases, clinical notes, backups, diagnostics, or other user data are included in this repository or release. The onboarding example is fictional teaching content.

CST Notes is proprietary software; see LICENSE for the permitted end-user and distribution rights.

Closed-source Community Directory disclosure

CST Notes is proprietary, closed-source software. The source code is not published in this public distribution repository. PeriSlate will provide the Obsidian Community directory read-only access to the separate private source repository through the official Community Directory GitHub App solely for review, security scanning, and verification that the release assets match the source build.

CST Notes has no payment requirement, account requirement, external processing service, telemetry, advertising, or outside-vault file access. See COMMUNITY-REVIEW.md for clipboard and host-setting disclosures and LICENSE for the applicable proprietary license.

Installation from a release

1. Download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from the release matching your Obsidian version.
2. Create <vault>/.obsidian/plugins/cst-notes/.
3. Place the downloaded files in that folder.
4. In Obsidian, open Settings → Community plugins, enable community plugins if needed, then enable CST Notes.
5. Use CST Notes: Initialize / repair installation if the plugin prompts you to initialize its workspace.

Release contents

GitHub releases attach these files:

• main.js
• manifest.json
• styles.css

versions.json is tracked in the repository for version compatibility metadata. This repository intentionally does not contain user vault data, local settings, source code, or build tooling.

Library export

Admin → Export / Data Portability prepares a single offline .cstpack for PeriSlate Cards. It includes original notes, surgeon profiles, templates, references, and supported images. Review the scope and warnings before preparing the package. Packages are unencrypted and can contain sensitive information. See the release notes and CSTPACK format specification.

Use Review resource recovery if a damaged resource index blocks export. When an image is unavailable, Create recovery note and continue export lists the affected cases in a note and records the omissions in the package.

Support

Use the repository’s issue tracker for reproducible bugs and include only redacted diagnostics. Do not attach real patient, case, surgeon, hospital, or credential information.