Adds Thesaurus to find easily Synonyms/different expressions

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I imagine this can speed up our writing, just to highlight the word you want to find a synonym or different expression. What do you think?

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Perhaps we could go further with synonyms and use something like the Datamuse API - Datamuse API to find not only synonyms but related words even rhyming words.

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I was just going to create a thread for this. I’ll add my thought here.

Another nice to have feature as a plugin would be a dictionary/thesaurus. This could work by highlighting a word and having results in a separate panel, probably in the right sidebar.

Just another feature I found useful in writemonkey and if Obsidian would like to be more useful as a creative writing app this is a great plugin idea.

I believe writemonkey uses this

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A dictionary plugin already exists: WordNet Dictionary.

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I just found out how to do this.
If you are using Mac, you have Thesaurus built in. You just need to enable it.
The way I did it was to:

  1. highlight a word in obsidian and select “Look up”
  2. scroll all the way down and select “Configure dictionaries”
  3. You get a popup of settings, and deselect everything, except, “oxford thesaurus”
  4. Restart obsidian.
  5. Enjoy synonyms. :slightly_smiling_face: