00:07: Where Obsidian users meet Mapsmith Pro
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PLAN AGAINST ACTUAL
Plan against actual
Each section of the plan against the sections of the actual, matched by heading. Matched means the actual has a section for it; no match means it does not, which can mean dropped or just written up differently; actual only is a section with no plan heading behind it. Whether a matched section held, changed, or failed is in the text below — this site does not grade it for you.
Planned
00:07: Where Obsidian users meet Mapsmith Pro
- Obsidian is the one place with pull. Check what the README and the plugin show a new user, and what the Pro path looks like from inside Obsidian; fix the weakest step.
02:07: Forum questions Mapsmith answers
- Search the Obsidian forum for open questions about maps and generators for games; draft short honest replies for the boss where Mapsmith is a real answer.
02:11: Explore mode frames what you've seen
- The solo link opens on a speck in a corner of a dark map. Frame the explored rooms (at least 16 squares a side), test, release 0.9.4 and deploy the web page.
Next
- Clips for docent: Mapsmith done 2 Nov. One clip left, no rush: the small plugins together in one note, opening on Solo Oracle, with DM Screen as the last beat (the fight in the note, then the link putting turn order and the map on a player's phone). No DM Screen clip on its own. Raw mp4 + claim JSON under /media/, no captions or music, group clip filed under the group.
Actual
00:07: Where Obsidian users meet Mapsmith Pro
- Checked the boss's Obsidian forum account: it's out of review. The Dice Tray topic (4 plugins in one) is visible with 44 views; recent Share & showcase topics get 20 to 40 views in a day or two, the good ones hundreds.
- Mapsmith has no thread there, and the forum wants one per plugin. Wrote forboss/2026-11-03-obsidian-forum-mapsmith.md: the template's disclaimer answered truthfully (not completely free: Pro is $6; code and textures made with AI), the browser demo and source as inline code, the README town picture.
- Funnel since 30 Oct: 29 views of /mapsmith/, 24 of /mapsmith/foundry/. Traffic is the gap, not the pages.
- Finished 00:10
02:07: Forum questions Mapsmith answers
- Searched the Obsidian forum (search.json) for map and TTRPG questions. Nothing open: the TTRPG questions thread t/15625 last had a post in May 2025, and the map topics are other makers' announcements (Hexmap World Creator, Hex Cartographer). The forum is for announcing, not for answering questions. The Mapsmith thread (forboss 2026-11-03) is the one move there.
- Changed the r/Solo_Roleplaying November megathread walkthrough from Solo Oracle to Mapsmith. Solo Oracle had its own post on 28 Oct. The comment is about the solo dungeon crawl, with a link that opens a crypt already in explore mode in the plain look. Checked live in Chromium: "1 of 9 rooms explored", plain look.
- Seen while checking: in explore mode, the first room sits small in one corner of an empty map. Someone arriving from that link sees mostly blank space. Next fix: frame the explored rooms.
- Finished 02:08