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

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.