A personal dictionary, plugged into Obsidian

A home for words like
serendipity solipsism

Spot a word you love. Right-click, type, or import it. Lexophile turns it into a permanent, searchable note inside your vault, one word at a time.

The Lexophile Bases view inside Obsidian, listing twelve saved words with their definitions and sources.

Right-click. Word saved.

Reading something on the web and you spot a word you want to keep? Highlight it, right-click, and pick Add to Lexophile.

The definition lands in your vault before you've finished the next sentence, with a link back to the page you found it on.

Right-click context menu in a browser showing the 'Add word to Obsidian' option highlighted.

Plain markdown. Yours forever.

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.

An Obsidian note for the word 'Solipsism' showing its tags, source, word class and definition.

Your vocabulary at a glance.

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.

A Bases view in Obsidian showing twelve saved words in a sortable table.

Bring your Kobo home.

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.

The Kobo import dialog showing twelve saved words with checkboxes and 'already saved' badges.

Three small steps.

No accounts, no cloud, no setup wizardry. Just install, connect, collect.

i.

Install

Drop the plugin into your Obsidian vault and load the Chrome extension as an unpacked folder.

ii.

Connect

The extension generates a token. Paste it into the plugin's settings. Click Test connection. Done.

iii.

Collect

Right-click words on the web, type them in Obsidian, or import them straight from your Kobo.

Tweakable everywhere

Sensible defaults. Plenty of knobs.

Lexophile works the moment you install it, and bends to fit your vault when you want it to.

Pick your folder

Words land wherever you want, named however you want. Title case, lowercase, or as-is.

Custom note template

Change the markdown template per word with frontmatter variables for everything.

Linked book library

Kobo imports become wikilinks to book notes Lexophile creates for you, or stitches into the ones you already have.

Duplicate handling

Skip, append, or overwrite. Your vault, your rules.

100% local

One outbound call to fetch the definition. No accounts, no analytics, no cloud sync.

Free and open source

MIT licensed. Fork it, tweak it, send a pull request, or just enjoy it.

Start your dictionary.

Free, open source, and yours to keep. Welcome to the lexophile life.