**Disclaimer**
Is this plugin **open source**? Yes — MIT licensed.
Is this plugin completely **free**? Yes.
Is this plugin **vibe-coded** beyond the author's ability to comprehend how it works? It is AI-assisted — built and maintained with Claude. It ships with an automated test suite (21 tests) covering the markdown conversion, the EPUB structure, and the full export flows end-to-end.
Community Directory: [Manuscript Export](https://community.obsidian.md/plugins/manuscript-export)
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I write long-form in Obsidian and got tired of the export step — the standalone tools that do proper ebook output (Vellum, Atticus) are $150–250 and live outside Obsidian, and the existing export plugins each handle a slice of the problem.
So I built Manuscript Export, free and open source, now in the community plugin directory:
- **Works with Longform directly**: run one command, pick your Longform project, and your scenes export in the order you arranged them in Longform — not filename order. The project title becomes the book title.
- No Longform? Point it at a folder of chapter notes instead.
- Output is a clean, spec-valid EPUB 3: generated table of contents, proper chapter breaks, scene-break dividers, embedded images.
- It understands manuscript-flavored Obsidian: wikilinks flatten to plain text, `%%comments%%` and callouts (which are almost always private author notes) are stripped so they never leak into your book, frontmatter never renders.
Install: Settings → Community plugins → Browse → "Manuscript Export". Source: `github.com/Dr3pi/obsidian-manuscript-export`
It's EPUB-only right now. Print-ready PDF (trim sizes, running headers) is the thing I'm considering building next — if that's what you need, tell me in the thread or on GitHub, it genuinely affects whether I build it.
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