Text Analysis plugin

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I am working on a plugin for (customizable) text analysis with over 30 calculations over the highlighted selection or the whole document.

Before publishing it, I am looking for beta testers - people who have long-form articles in their Obsidian and care about qualitative analysis of the text. Please drop me a note and I’ll send you the sideloading instructions.

See two screenshots below - one with plugin of the whole document and the other one with calculation over a selection of text

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Great Idea! What languages will be supported?

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I have got long form articles - half a book - in one vault. Language: german

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If you are using BRAT plugin (Beta Reviewer’s Auto-update Tool), add this repo:

If you want to test it manually (without BRAT), create a new directory (obsidian-textanalysis) in your .obsidian/plugins and drop in it two files that are published here - you need main.js and manifest.json.

By default all 31 analysis items are turned on - go to the settings of plugin (Settings - Text Analysis) and tinker with your own selection.

Few things to note:

  • you can turn the side panel on/off by clicking tye eye icon in the ribbon
  • you can resize the side panel by dragging the top of its title bar
  • the words and characters that Obsidian reports in its bottom right corner don’t always match what Text Analysis calculates; it is Obsidian’s algo that is wrong, it counts things that are not words (and sometimes things that are not characters). We can discuss why…
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The majority of tests should work for all Latin letters languages. Some basic tests at the top of the list should work for all Unicode languages (but I didn’t test it yet).
Would love to hear which tests return rubbish scores when facing non-English (and even worse, non-Latin letters) text.

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