🤝 Synergistic Tools

External tools

Fountain autocomplete, syntax highlighting, and export to PDF

Fountain screenplay writing in VS Code!
It’s what I’ve been using before this, and what I will continue to use for its:
1. Export to PDF
2. Actual PDF-like Live Preview
3. Familiarity with my coding workflows and configurations
4. Screenplay statistics (afterwriting-labs integration)
5. Repository management, like version control with git
6. Writing Fountain directly
The BetterFountain plugin and IDE editor are both still great UX that I will still use.
That said,
1. I want links to integrate with my Obsidian vault.
2. Since Fountain is meant to be written in one long document, it gets bulky. Which leads us to…

A plugin for Obsidian that helps you write and edit novels, screenplays, and other long projects.

Manage and compile notes into an ordered manuscript!
- Yes! This allows you to write Fountain in separate files! And combines them according to your sequence!
- John August’s own Assembler was the original attempt to rectify the issue of Fountain requiring all your content in a single file. It’s still an option.
- But Longform integrates with Obsidian and stores your configuration.
Through Longform’s Compile extra features, you can also strip Fountain-incompatible markdown tokens like frontmatter, comments and wikilinks from source files!
Then you can specify an output file as out/$1.fountain!
- Thanks, @kevboh, for fixing this!
An ESSENTIAL tool if you’re really going to use Obsidian for any writing projects.

An obsidian plugin allowing you to register and view different file extensions in a modular manner.

Allows you to open .fountain files in the Obsidian editor!
Fountain syntax formatting works!
Note that .fountain files are treated like external files, unlike native markdown files that integrate in Obsidian’s systems.

Typewriter Scroll Obsidian Plugin

Automatic scrolling as you type — your cursor/active line stays at a fixed point on your screen. No more flickering eyes.