Vocab Hover

An Obsidian plugin that lets you add hover tooltips to any word — great for vocabulary learning, annotations, or quick references.

Demo

Hover over a marked word to see its tooltip:

How to Use

Adding a tooltip

1. Select any word or phrase in the editor
2. Right-click → Add Hover Content
3. Type the tooltip text (e.g. a translation or definition)
4. Press Enter or click Confirm

The word is saved as {word::tooltip} in your note.

Viewing tooltips

Switch to Reading View and hover over any underlined word to see its tooltip.

Word highlight style

You can choose how marked words appear in Reading View. Open Settings → Vocab Hover → Word highlight style and pick one of the following:

The style applies instantly — no need to reload.

Vocabulary list

All marked words across your vault can be collected into a single reference note.

1. Open Settings → Vocab Hover
2. Click Generate

A note (default: Vocabulary List.md) will be created with a table of every word and its content, linked back to the source note. Once generated, the list updates automatically whenever you save any note.

The note path can be changed in settings.

Manual syntax

You can also type the syntax directly:

The {diffuse::漫射} map controls the base color.

Installation

From Obsidian Community Plugins

1. Open Settings → Community Plugins
2. Disable Safe Mode if prompted
3. Click Browse and search for Vocab Hover
4. Click Install then Enable.

Manual Installation

1. Download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from the latest release
2. Copy them into your vault at .obsidian/plugins/vocab-hover/
3. Enable the plugin in Settings → Community Plugins

License

MIT