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Orca is a plugin for Obsidian for desktop, tablets, and phones. It needs Obsidian 1.7.2 or later.

The Community plugins tab of Obsidian's settings, with Orca in the list of installed plugins.The Community plugins tab of Obsidian's settings, with Orca in the list of installed plugins.
Settings, Community plugins. Orca is in the list of installed plugins.
  1. Open Settings.
  2. Open Community plugins.
  3. If community plugins are off, select Turn on community plugins.
  4. Select Browse.
  5. Search for Orca.
  6. Select Orca in the results.
  7. Select Install.
  8. Select Enable.

The ribbon then shows Open Orca. The menu for a folder in the file tree then has Create book from these notes. Next, read Anatomy of orca to learn the parts of orca.

BRAT is a community plugin that installs a plugin from its GitHub repository. With BRAT, you can install a version of orca that is not the one in the list of community plugins. The repository to give BRAT is zachhannum/obsidian-orca.