Silent Autocorrect

Word-style, real-time auto-correct for Obsidian, with an interactive status bar, a dictionary manager, toggleable clinical shorthands and medical sub-dictionaries. Fixes happen silently as you type, and one press of Backspace undoes any of them.

Desktop only. Silent Autocorrect uses the status bar and Obsidian's built-in spellchecker, so it is marked desktop-only.

Features

• Status bar
  • Live word and character counts with an estimated reading time.
  • Add Word button for one-click dictionary additions.
  • Auto-correct on/off pill.
  • Sensitivity pill: click to cycle Ultra, Proactive, Balanced, Strict and Minimal.
  • Sub-dictionary count: click to open the dictionary manager.
  • Session counter: click to revert the last correction.
  • Right-click the status bar for a quick menu.
• Add words anytime
  • Status bar button, left ribbon icon, or right-click a word in the editor.
  • Command palette: Add word under cursor to dictionary.
  • Dictionary manager: add single words, bulk-paste lists, and browse or remove custom words.
  • Plugin settings.
• Clinical shorthands (each individually toggleable): pt to patient, hx to history, dx to diagnosis, tx to treatment, rx to prescription, sob to shortness of breath, prn to as needed and more. Choose silent auto-correct or underline-only per shorthand.
• Medical sub-dictionaries: Cardiology and Pulmonology, Pharmacology, Surgery, Neurology, Pathology and Anatomy, each toggleable.
• Sensitivity tiers: Ultra (35%), Proactive (45%), Balanced (52%, the default), Strict (68%) and Minimal (verified fixes only).
• Instant Backspace undo: press Backspace right after a correction to restore what you typed.
• Auto-corrections panel: lists every silent fix, newest first, with its type (English, Medical, Shorthand, Case, Spacing), a confidence meter, the note it happened in, and a Dict button to add the original word to your dictionary. The last 200 fixes are kept; the bin icon clears them. Open it from the ribbon, the command palette (Show auto-corrections panel) or the status bar menu.

Optional frequency dictionaries (network use)

Two English word-frequency files let the plugin tell real words from typos, pick the most likely fix (hte to the) and repair spacing (ism y name to is my name, inthe to in the, wh at to what).

Obsidian only installs main.js, manifest.json and styles.css, so these files are downloaded on request:

• The first time the plugin loads without them, it asks once whether to download them. Nothing is fetched unless you click Download.
• You can download (or re-download) them any time from Settings, Silent Autocorrect, Frequency dictionaries, or with the command Download frequency dictionaries.
• Source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wolfgarbe/SymSpell/master/SymSpell/ (about 6.5 MB in total). The files are saved in the plugin's own folder.
• This is the plugin's only network access. No note content, vault data or analytics are ever sent.

Without these files the plugin still works using its built-in dictionaries.

Privacy and data

• Everything runs locally. The plugin makes no network requests other than the optional download above.
• The auto-corrections panel history (original word, corrected word, confidence and the title of the note it happened in) is stored locally in the plugin's data.json inside your vault, together with your settings and custom words. Use the bin icon in the panel to clear the history.
• On desktop the plugin asks Obsidian's built-in Chromium spellchecker whether a word is misspelled (via Electron's webFrame). This stays on your machine and only works when Settings, Editor, Spellcheck is enabled.
• No ads, no telemetry, no account required.

Medical disclaimer

Silent Autocorrect is a writing aid, not a clinical tool. Auto-expanded shorthands and corrected drug or condition names can be wrong. Always proofread anything used in clinical, legal or other safety-critical settings.

Installation

From Community Plugins (once approved)

1. In Obsidian, open Settings, Community plugins.
2. Turn off Restricted mode, choose Browse, search for Silent Autocorrect, then Install and Enable.

Manual

1. Download main.js, manifest.json and styles.css from the latest GitHub release.
2. Create the folder <your vault>/.obsidian/plugins/silent-autocorrect/ and copy the three files into it. The folder name must be silent-autocorrect.
3. Reload Obsidian and enable Silent Autocorrect under Settings, Community plugins.

Credits and licenses

• Word-frequency data (frequency_dictionary_en_82_765.txt, frequency_bigramdictionary_en_243_342.txt) comes from SymSpell by Wolf Garbe (MIT License). Please see that repository for the data's own sources and licensing terms. The files are downloaded from there and are not redistributed in this repository.
• This plugin is released under the license in the LICENSE file.