The Spirit's Book

An Obsidian plugin to study and explore The Spirit's Book by Allan Kardec, directly within your vault.

✨ Features

• 🔍 Search questions and answers by number or keyword
• 🔀 Get a random question for daily reflection or inspiration
• ⭐ Mark favorites for quick access later
• 🌐 Multilingual support: English, Portuguese, Spanish, and French (WIP)
• 📚 Structured content with book, parts, chapters, and questions

⚠️ Mobile Incompatibility

Important: This plugin is not compatible with Obsidian Mobile (iOS or Android).
It was designed for desktop use only, due to technical limitations of the mobile API and filesystem access.

📦 Installation

Community Plugins (recommended)

1. In Obsidian, go to Settings > Community Plugins > Browse
2. Search for "The Spirit's Book"
3. Click Install, then Enable

Manual installation

1. Download or clone this repository
2. Copy the spirits-book folder to your .obsidian/plugins/ directory
3. Copy data folder to your .obsidian/plugins/spirits-book directory
4. Restart Obsidian and enable the plugin

🌍 Supported Languages

• 🇧🇷 Portuguese (original)
• 🇬🇧 English
• 🇪🇸 Spanish
• 🇫🇷 French

🧠 About The Spirit's Book

“The Spirit's Book” (1857) is the foundational work of Spiritism, authored by Allan Kardec. It contains 1,019 questions and answers about life, God, the soul, reincarnation, and the spirit world.

This plugin helps you study its content with modern tools and flexible navigation.

🔧 Configuration

You can:

• Change the display language
• View a random question
• Favorite or unfavorite any item
• Search by number, topic, or word

📘 Example Use Cases

• Spiritual daily study
• Note-linking with commentary in your Obsidian vault
• Group study or Kardecist course integration

💡 Future Plans

• Export to Markdown
• Contextual linking to your notes
• Timeline study tracking
• Add search functionality
• Improve UI customization
• Add more languages (e.g., German, Italian)
• Implement daily question notifications

☕ Support this project

If this plugin is useful for your spiritual studies, you can support my work:

Or, if you're in Brazil, use Pix:
Chave: [email protected]
Nome: Antonio Henrique

Thank you! 🙏

🛠️ Developed by

Antonio Henrique

Contributions welcome!

✍️ About the Author

"Those who look outside dream; those who look inside awaken." — Carl Jung

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