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README.md

Lexophile

01

An Obsidian plugin for building a personal dictionary. Save any word you read to your vault as a definition note with the part of speech, example sentence, and a link back to where you found it.

Features

  • Add words from the command palette
  • Paste a whole list of words and import them in one go
  • Import every word you saved on a Kobo eReader, linked back to the book it came from
  • Right-click any word on the web to save it, using the companion Chrome extension
  • Auto-generated table view of your full lexicon
  • Familiarity score on every word (common / familiar / obscure)
  • Optional offline mode using a bundled English dictionary
  • Custom note templates

How it works

When you save a word, Lexophile looks it up, creates a note in your Dictionary/ folder, and adds it to a table view. The lookup goes to the free Dictionary API by default, or to a local SQLite file you download once if you switch to offline mode.

That's it. Everything stays in your vault as Markdown.

Install

Not in the community store yet. To install manually:

  1. Download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from the latest release
  2. Drop them in <your vault>/.obsidian/plugins/lexophile/
  3. Enable Lexophile - Personal Dictionary in Obsidian's community plugins settings

Use

Add a word: open the command palette and run Lexophile: Add word to lexicon. Type or paste a word and hit Enter.

Mass-import: run Lexophile: Mass-import words from a list. Paste a list separated by commas, spaces, or new lines.

Kobo import: in settings, enable Kobo import. Plug in your Kobo, run Lexophile: Import words from Kobo, and pick the words you want to save.

Web capture: install the Chrome extension. Highlight a word, right-click, choose Add "<word>" to Lexophile.

Offline mode

In settings, switch Dictionary source to Local (offline) and click Download. The plugin fetches a ~23MB dictionary file (about 167K English entries from Wiktionary) and stores it in the plugin folder. After that, lookups are local and instant.

Data comes from MattDodsonEnglish/english-dictionary.

Privacy

No analytics, no telemetry, no account. In online mode the plugin calls api.dictionaryapi.dev. In offline mode the only network call is the one-time dictionary download.

Support

License

MIT