I’d like to nominate Word Sprint, which was created this year to serve the needs of writers using Obsidian while participating in NaNoWriMo. There are 2 reasons for this nomination:
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It’s just a great plugin—thoughtfully designed, easy to use and customize, and full of helpful features that are there when you need them but won’t get in your way if you don’t. As someone who has tried out dozens of pomodoro / writing sprint applications, this one stands apart for its simplicity and usability. And because it’s an Obsidian plugin, not a standalone app, it lives right in the same environment that I use to plan, write, and edit my work. I wrote over 13,000 words of my novel in November, all while using this plugin, and I am 100% certain I would not have written that much without it.
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The developer has been incredibly responsive throughout the development of this plugin. The Obsidian Discord server had a thread for NaNoWriMo participants, and I basically got to watch as the dev got feedback or bug reports from users in this thread and then turned around an update in real time, sometimes multiple times per day. For me, this was a really great example of why Obsidian is such a unique and powerful tool—the core features of the program are of course wonderful, but the extensibility and community participation aspects of it really make it shine.