| name | obsidian-ko-style |
| description | Apply or review Obsidian Korean style guide โ 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. |
Apply the Obsidian Korean style guide to the given content.
Voice
Modern, restrained ํด์์ฒด across all surfaces. Direct and calm. Friendly, but still unmistakably documentation.
Default endings: ํด์ / ์ด์์ / ์์ / ํ ์ ์์ด์ / ํ์ธ์
Core rule: Use ํด์์ฒด, but write it like product documentation, not like a blog post, onboarding coach, or marketing page.
Never mix ํด์์ฒด and ํฉ๋๋ค์ฒด on the same page unless quoting existing source text.
Register choice
For the Obsidian Korean Help site, the best default register is:
- polite
ํด์์ฒด
- neutral and practical
- low-emotion
- easy to scan
Not recommended as the site-wide default:
- rigid
ํฉ๋๋ค์ฒด
- chatty spoken Korean
- persuasive or promotional Korean
Think:
- good: calm docs voice
- bad: stiff manual voice
- bad: playful onboarding voice
- bad: hypey marketing voice
By surface
| Surface | Register |
|---|
| Help site | Restrained ํด์์ฒด. Neutral explanation. Practical, low-hype, low-drama. |
| App UI | Short labels and concise imperatives. |
| Homepage | Heading fragments or light ํด์์ฒด. 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. |
Avoid
- Rhetorical questions: ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ํ๋๊ณ ์? โ state it directly
- Persuasive asides: ๋น์ฐํ, ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ด์ฃ , ์ํ์ง ์์ผ์์ฃ ?
- Hype: ์ง์ ํ ํ, ์ต๊ณ ์, ๊ถ๊ทน์, ๋งค์ฐ ์ค์ํด์ โ ํต์ฌ ์์, ์ ์ฉํด์
- Chatty openers: ์ด์ ์์ํด ๋ณผ๊น์?, ์ ๋ง ๊ฐ๋ ฅํด์!
- Translated idioms: ์ต์ฐ์ ์๋ฏผ โ ํต์ฌ ์์ / ์ค์ฌ ๊ฐ๋
- Overly literal English sentence structure
- Motivational filler: ์์ฝ๊ฒ, ๋๋๊ฒ๋, ๋ฉ์ง๊ฒ, ์๋ฒฝํ๊ฒ
- Emotional emphasis where none is needed
Help-site tone
For Help pages, prefer:
- clear statements
- short explanation before detail
- direct instructions
- modest claims
- concrete product terms
For Help pages, avoid:
- rhetorical setup
- โsellingโ the feature
- abstract philosophy when a concrete benefit will do
- dramatic contrast like โ์ง์ ํ ํโ, โ๋ง๋ฅ ์๋ฃจ์
โ, โ์ต๊ณ ์ ๋๊ตฌโ
Headings
Avoid sentence endings in headings. Use section labels, not full sentences.
โ Obsidian์ด๋ / ๋ด ๋ฐ์ดํฐ๋ฅผ ์ง์ ๊ด๋ฆฌ / ๋ฆฌ๋ณธ ์ฌ์ฉ์ ์ง์
โ ๋ฐ์ดํฐ๋ฅผ ์ง์ ์์ ํ๊ณ ๊ด๋ฆฌํด์
Body copy patterns
์ ์: "X๋ โฆ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์ด์์."
๊ธฐ๋ฅ: "โฆํ ์ ์์ด์." / "โฆ๋ฅผ ์ง์ํด์."
์ง์: "โฆํ์ธ์." / "โฆ๋ฅผ ์ ํํ์ธ์."
์กฐ๊ฑด: "โฆํ๋ฉด โฆํ ์ ์์ด์."
๊ถ์ฅ: "โฆํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์ข์์." / "โฆ๋ฅผ ๊ถ์ฅํด์."
์ค๋ช
: "โฆํ๋ ๋ฐ ๋์์ด ๋ผ์."
Preferred sentence feel
Aim for:
- "Obsidian์ Markdown ํธ์ง๊ธฐ์ด์ ์ง์ ๊ด๋ฆฌ ์ฑ์ด์์."
- "๋
ธํธ๋ฅผ ์๋ก ์ฐ๊ฒฐํ๋ฉด ๊ด๊ณ๋ฅผ ํ์
ํ๋ ๋ฐ ๋์์ด ๋ผ์."
- "์ค์ ์ ์ด๊ณ ์ธํ์ ์ ํํ์ธ์."
Avoid:
- "Obsidian์ Markdown ํธ์ง๊ธฐ์ด์ ์ง์ ๊ด๋ฆฌ ์ฑ์
๋๋ค."
- "์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์์ํ๋๊ณ ์?"
- "์ง์ ํ ํ์ ์ด์ดํ๊ฒ ์ฐ๊ฒฐ๋ ์ง์ ๊ด๋ฆฌ ์ฒด๊ณ๋ฅผ ๊ด๋ฆฌํ๋ ๋ฐ ์์ด์."
Help site structure
- What the feature is
- What it does
- How to use it
- Notes or examples
Terminology
Keep fixed: Markdown, Canvas, CSS, API
Transliterate: ๋ณผํธ, ํ๋ฌ๊ทธ์ธ, ํ
๋ง, ์ค๋ํซ, ๊ทธ๋ํ ๋ทฐ, ๋ฐฑ๋งํฌ, ๋ช
๋ น ํ๋ ํธ
Avoid heavy abstractions โ prefer plain phrasing:
- ๋
ธํธ๋ฅผ ์ ๋ฆฌํ๋ ๋ฐฉ์ (not ์ง์ ๊ด๋ฆฌ ์ฒด๊ณ)
- ํต์ฌ ์์ (not ์ต์ฐ์ ์๋ฏผ)
- ํ์ฌ (not ์๋ํํฐ)
- ์ฌ์ฉ์ ์ง์ (not ์ปค์คํ
/ ์ปค์คํฐ๋ง์ด์ฆ, unless part of a stable file name or legacy link target)
Preferred rewrites
| Avoid | Prefer |
|---|
| ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์์ํ๋๊ณ ์? | ์์ํ๋ ค๋ฉด ๋จผ์ [[๋ด๋ถ ๋งํฌ]]๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ค์ด ๋ณด์ธ์. |
| ๋งํฌ๋ ์ต์ฐ์ ์๋ฏผ์ด์์ | ๋งํฌ๋ Obsidian์ ํต์ฌ ์์์์ |
| ์์ ์ ๋๋๋ฅผ ๋งก๊ธฐ๊ณ ์ถ์ง ์์ผ์์ฃ ? | ์ค์ํ ์ง์์ ์ง์ ์์ ํ๊ณ ๊ด๋ฆฌํ ์ ์์ด์ผ ํด์. |
| ์ง์ ํ ํ์ ๋๋ผ์ธ ์ ๋๋กโฆ | ๋
ธํธ ์ฌ์ด์ ๊ด๊ณ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๋ ๋ฐ ๋์์ด ๋ผ์ |
| ๋น์ฐํ ๋ชจ๋ ์ฌ๋์ ์ํ ๋จ์ผ ๋ง๋ฅ ์๋ฃจ์
์ ์์ด์ | ๋ชจ๋ ์ฌ๋์๊ฒ ๋ง๋ ๋จ์ผ ์๋ฃจ์
์ ์์ด์ |
| ๋
์ ์ ์ด๊ณ ์กฐ๋ฆฝ๋ ์ ํ | ์ ํด์ง ๋ฐฉ์์ ๊ฐ์ํ๋ ์ ํ |
| ์ต๊ณ ์ด์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ธ๋ จ๋ ์ฌ๊ณ ์ฒ๋ฆฌ ๋๊ตฌ | Remove superlatives. State the feature or roadmap directly. |
Translation priority
- Clarity
- Natural Korean
- Consistency
- Closeness to source
A slightly less literal sentence that reads naturally is almost always the right call.
When clarity and literalness conflict, choose the version that sounds like polished Korean product documentation.