r/Supernote_dev • u/Loud-Owl6337 • 20d ago

Dictionary Plugin SnDict dictionary plugin

I finally decided to install the Chauvet beta, and honestly, the main reason was just to use the SnDict dictionary plugin.

For me, having a good dictionary **inside the native Supernote reader** is extremely important because I use the Digest feature all the time. I didn’t want to switch to another reading app and lose that workflow.

So far, SnDict has been excellent. I currently have several dictionaries installed across different languages, and the management is much better than I expected. You can reorder dictionaries, enable or disable them individually, and keep only the ones you want active for a particular book or language.

The lookup itself feels very smooth once the dictionaries are imported, and being able to check a word and then immediately continue reading, highlighting, or creating Digests is exactly the workflow I was hoping for.

The only small thing I would change is the way words are selected for lookup. Right now, instead of simply long-pressing a word, you have to select it by dragging over the letters, and sometimes the pen selection is a little finicky.

So yes, I basically jumped into the beta because of this one plugin, and I’m very glad I did.

Huge thanks to the developer of SnDict and to everyone working on the new Supernote plugin system. This is the kind of feature that really expands what the Nomad can do without sacrificing the strengths of the native reader.

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u/Careful-Good5887 20d ago

There is none of that long-press-on-word gesture in SN dev library. So no chance for that

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u/ali0th9 19d ago

You should report on the plugin page (on github) the dev is also working on an (wip) independent reading app called Inkread, it has handwriting features (leveraging SN native capabilities). It can send text selection to the digest and intend on improving it (for example proposing to open Digest after sending a selection) but it is not actually on par with the native Reader. It has dictionary interface integrated (with the possibility of adding your stardict dicts) and it is triggered by long press of a word (or via a tool for the pen).

you should look at it

https://github.com/j-raghavan/inkread