Quick Translate

What it does

Translate the selection or a whole note into another language with no account, keeping links, code and front matter untouched.

Quick Translate is a successor to Translate, Language Translator and DeepL, none of which has been updated for two years or more.

Highlights

• Translate selection shows the translation in a small window: pick another language there and it translates again, then Copy, Insert below or Replace selection. Two more commands skip the window: Translate selection and replace it and Translate selection and insert it below. In the settings you choose what plain Translate selection does. The right-click menu has Translate selection into [language] and Translate selection into….
• Translate note into a new note writes the translation beside the original as Note (es).md (or in a folder you set) and opens it in a new tab. A second run makes Note (es 2).md; nothing is overwritten. The file-explorer menu has the same entry, and Translate note into a new note in… asks for the language.
• One edit, one undo. Replace and insert are a single editor transaction, so one undo takes them back. If the text you selected changes while the translation is on its way, nothing is written.
• Markdown stays Markdown. Front matter, code blocks and inline code, maths, comments, wikilinks and embeds, link addresses, bare addresses, tags, footnote references, block ids, list markers, task boxes, heading marks, callout types and table pipes are never sent (each table cell is translated on its own, so a language with another word order cannot move text between columns) and come back exactly as they were. Link labels and the text around everything else are translated. A sentence with a link or code in the middle is sent whole so the translator sees all of it; if the translator mangles the placeholders for the syntax, the pieces are translated one by one instead, which reads worse but never loses a link.
• Detects the source language (or fix it in the settings). A note already in the target language is left alone, with a message.
• Remembers translations for the session, so repeating a command costs no request.

Details

Version

0.1.1

Needs Obsidian

1.11.4 or newer

Platforms

Desktop and mobile

Author

Siulved54

Price

Free and open source

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