Grow your vocabulary one word at a time. Lexophile turns each word into a permanent note in your Obsidian vault.
Reading something on the web and you spot a word you want to keep? Highlight it, right-click, and pick Add to Obsidian.
The definition lands in your vault before you've finished the next sentence, with a link back to the page you found it on.
Each word becomes its own note with the part of speech, definition, and a link back to the source.
Standard frontmatter, no proprietary format, no lock-in. If you can use Obsidian, you can use Lexophile.
Lexophile auto-builds an Obsidian Bases view of every word you've collected.
Sort by date, filter by part of speech, search by source. It's a dictionary you actually want to flip through.
Plug in your Kobo, run one command, and pull every word you've ever saved while reading.
Each word links back to the book it came from. Already saved words get politely skipped.
No accounts, no cloud, no setup wizardry. Just install, connect, collect.
Drop the plugin into your Obsidian vault and load the Chrome extension as an unpacked folder.
The extension generates a token. Paste it into the plugin's settings. Click Test connection. Done.
Right-click words on the web, type them in Obsidian, or import them straight from your Kobo.
Lexophile works the moment you install it, and bends to fit your vault when you want it to.
Words land wherever you want, named however you want. Title case, lowercase, or as-is.
Change the markdown template per word with frontmatter variables for everything.
Kobo imports become wikilinks to book notes Lexophile creates for you, or stitches into the ones you already have.
Skip, append, or overwrite. Your vault, your rules.
One API call to fetch your definition. No accounts, no analytics, no data stored anywhere but your own vault.
MIT licensed. Fork it, tweak it, send a pull request, or just enjoy it.
Already have a list? Paste in dozens or hundreds of words at once and let Lexophile fetch the definitions in bulk.
Skip the API entirely. Plug in a local dictionary file and Lexophile runs completely on-device.
See how common each word is at a glance, so you can tell the everyday words apart from the truly rare finds.