Pele Editor

A plugin for Obsidian Desktop

Color your Mermaid diagrams with a right-click.

Change one color, apply a gradient across a whole series, or reuse a favorite palette. Do it on the rendered diagram, right inside your Obsidian note.

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Scene AnalysisTimeline
Scene Analysis timeline with five color-coded steps, from blue through violet to magenta.
Five colors across a scene breakdown

01 / The workflow

Right-click the thing you want to change.

Open a Pele-rendered Mermaid diagram in Reading view or Live Preview. Right-click a supported item and choose its color command. A Gantt task, a flowchart node, and a timeline section each get a menu suited to the item you picked.

Pick a color and apply it. Pele Editor saves the styling in the Mermaid block in your note, so it’s there the next time you open the diagram. Use Reset color to return an item to its series color or default.

Pele Editor’s right-click menu with Task color, Color series, and Reset color.
Color a Gantt task, apply a series, or reset a color.
Pele tree diagram with a project folder, color-coded files, and annotations.
Give branches of a project tree distinct colors.

02 / Color series & presets

Pick two colors. Preview the whole series.

Set a first and last color. Each swatch in the live preview corresponds to one item in your series. Pele Editor calculates the colors in between in OKLCH using the shorter hue path.

Save a single color or a pair of endpoints as a preset and use it across notes. Add an item later and the series adjusts to fit.

Color Series dialog with a saved preset, two endpoint colors, and five preview swatches.
The Color Series dialog previews the palette before you apply it.

03 / Diagram examples

Make the distinctions easy to see.

Separate overlapping sets in a Venn diagram, tell radar series apart, or give stages in a timeline a consistent palette. Pele Editor supports 32 diagram types, with controls tailored to each type. Browse diagram types at Pele ↗

Three overlapping sets labeled Desirable, Feasible, and Viable, with Ship it at their intersection.
Venn diagramWhat makes a good feature
Restaurant comparison radar chart with four colored series.
Radar chartRestaurant comparison

04 / Trial & pricing

Seven days to try it on your own diagrams.

Once the plugin is installed, open Settings → Pele Editor and choose Start trial. You’ll have seven days to try color editing, series, and presets.

After the trial, your diagrams keep displaying their saved styles. A one-time purchase lets you continue editing. Paste the license key from your Lemon Squeezy receipt into the plugin settings and choose Activate.

Pele EditorPreparing for release

$5USD · one-time purchase

7-day free trial · Obsidian Desktop 1.15.0 or later

The trial and checkout will be available at launch.

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05 / Good to know

A few practical details.

Made by Alex Hallajian of XLA Studios.

Which diagrams can I edit?

Open a Mermaid diagram rendered by Pele in Obsidian Desktop 1.15.0 or later. Pele Editor works in Reading view and Live Preview. Available controls depend on the diagram and the item you right-click.

Where do my colors and presets go?

Diagram colors are saved in the Mermaid block in your note. Presets, trial status, and license activation are stored in the vault’s plugin settings.

What does the plugin send online?

Lemon Squeezy handles checkout and license checks. For activation and periodic verification, the plugin sends your license key and activation details to Lemon Squeezy. Your notes and diagrams stay in Obsidian during those checks.