Does anybody know where the spell check dictionary lives? Inside .obsidian/app.json there is a spellcheckDictionary list but I have almost 100 words there and none of them show up when I go to Settings > Editor > Spellcheck and click the little gear icon. Likewise, manually adding a new word (e.g.:…

On a Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/obsidian/Custom Dictionary.txt Angel

it’s not used anymore. We switched to using chrome spellchecker a long while ago, the user dictionary is global now not synced.

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\obsidian\Custom Dictionary.txt

That’s unfortunate. Thanks for clarifying though! EDIT: For the *nix users (non snap install): me@computer:~/.var/app/md.obsidian.Obsidian/config/obsidian$ cat Custom\ Dictionary.txt | wc -l 78

Thanks for asking this, I was looking for this too. For me, on Linux Mint, it’s in ~/.config/obsidian not in .var, but at least I knew what to look for now :slight_smile: Now maybe someone could explain how to actually manually add a bunch of words to that Custom Dictionary.txt? Because when I add …

Thanks for pointing this out! I already have some automation around keeping my ~ in sync so if I can get obsidian using the ~/.config/obsidian path, i’d be set! How are you installing / running obsidian, @ReaderGuy42 ?

Via the installer on the official website I think. I would use Mint’s official repo to install it, but that was a few versions behind.

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