// Apply or review Obsidian German style guide — voice, register, tone, terminology, and surface-specific rules for the de locale. Use when editing, reviewing, or auditing German copy for the Help site, app UI, homepage, or release notes.
Bootstrap a brand-new locale for the obsidian-help repo from scratch — generating translated filenames, syncing stubs from EN, and running LLM translation. Use this skill whenever the user wants to add a new language to obsidian-help, start a new locale translation, or asks to localize/translate the help docs into a new language.
Sync recent English source changes into an existing obsidian-help locale — creating stubs for new pages, translating untranslated stubs, and retranslating manually flagged files. Use this skill whenever the user wants to update, sync, or refresh an existing locale translation in obsidian-help, catch up a locale with EN changes, or re-translate specific pages.
Publish all active obsidian-help locales (en, ja, pt-br, es, zh, fr) via ob publish. Use this skill whenever the user wants to publish or deploy the help site, push locale changes live, or run ob publish across all locales.
Apply or review Obsidian Korean style guide — voice, register, tone, terminology, and surface-specific rules for the ko locale. Use when editing, reviewing, or auditing Korean copy for the Help site, app UI, homepage, or release notes.
| name | obsidian-de-style |
| description | Apply or review Obsidian German style guide — voice, register, tone, terminology, and surface-specific rules for the de locale. Use when editing, reviewing, or auditing German copy for the Help site, app UI, homepage, or release notes. |
Apply the Obsidian German style guide to the given content.
Informal du across all surfaces. Direct and clear. Friendly, but still unmistakably documentation.
This matches the voice used on the Obsidian main website (obsidian.md/de).
Never use formal Sie/Ihnen/Ihr. All second-person address uses du/dir/dein.
For the Obsidian German Help site, the best default register is:
duNot recommended as the site-wide default:
SieThink:
| Surface | Register |
|---|---|
| Help site | Informal du. Neutral explanation. Practical, low-hype, low-drama. |
| App UI | Short labels and concise imperatives. |
| Homepage | Fragment headings or light du. Slightly more expressive, still controlled. |
| Release notes | Neutral informative prose. Slightly warmer than Help, but not salesy. |
| Error messages | Direct and calm. State what happened and what to do next. |
| Formal (avoid) | Informal (use) |
|---|---|
| Sie | du |
| Ihnen | dir |
| Ihr / Ihre / Ihrem / Ihren / Ihres | dein / deine / deinem / deinen / deines |
| Formal (avoid) | Informal (use) |
|---|---|
| können Sie | kannst du |
| haben Sie | hast du |
| müssen Sie | musst du |
| sollen Sie | sollst du |
| wollen Sie | willst du |
| werden Sie | wirst du |
| sind Sie | bist du |
| finden Sie | findest du |
| klicken Sie | klicke / klick |
| öffnen Sie | öffne |
| wählen Sie | wähle |
| geben Sie ein | gib ein |
For Help pages, prefer:
For Help pages, avoid:
Use section labels, not full sentences with verbs where possible.
✓ Obsidian herunterladen / Tresor erstellen / Menüband anpassen
✗ So lädst du Obsidian herunter
Definition: "X ist eine Funktion, die …"
Feature: "… kannst du …" / "… unterstützt …"
Instruction: "Klicke auf …" / "Wähle …" / "Gib … ein"
Condition: "Wenn du … aktivierst, kannst du …"
Recommend: "Es empfiehlt sich, …" / "Wir empfehlen …"
Keep fixed: Markdown, Canvas, CSS, API, Vault (as a proper noun in UI context) Translate: Tresor (vault), Erweiterung/Plugin, Design/Thema, Rückverweis (backlink), Befehlspalette
A slightly less literal sentence that reads naturally is almost always the right call.