Tuck a book into the margins of your workday.

Sip is a VS Code extension that displays a plain-text book alongside whatever you're working on — tucked into the status bar, rendered as ghost text at the end of a line, disguised as code comments, or surfaced in the native hover popup. Page size is measured in columns, so CJK and Latin books both wrap correctly.

Getting started

Run Sip: Open Book from the command palette and pick a .txt file.
Pick a reading mode (Sip: Toggle Reading Mode or the sip.readingMode setting).
Page through with Ctrl+[ / Ctrl+] on macOS, or Alt+[ / Alt+] on Windows / Linux / WSL.

Your position is saved per book path and survives reloads.

Reading modes

Mode	What it looks like
`statusBar`	One line packed into the status bar — most discreet.
`inlineGhost`	Faded italic text at the end of the current line, like a Copilot hint.
`pseudoComment`	Several lines of book text rendered as fake code comments just below the cursor.
`hoverTooltip`	Current page shown in the native hover popup when you mouse over code.

All modes share the same paginator, so switching mode keeps the same text in view.

Settings

Setting	Default	What it does
`sip.bookPath`	`""`	Absolute path to the book file (`.txt`).
`sip.readingMode`	`statusBar`	`statusBar` \| `inlineGhost` \| `pseudoComment` \| `hoverTooltip`.
`sip.visible`	`true`	Master visibility toggle.
`sip.maxDisplayWidth`	`60`	Max display width in columns; CJK characters count as 2.
`sip.showChapterInStatusBar`	`true`	Show chapter name in the status-bar tooltip. Only used by `statusBar`.
`sip.pseudoCommentLines`	`3`	Number of comment lines to show. Only used by `pseudoComment`.
`sip.hoverTooltipLines`	`4`	Number of body lines in the hover popup. Only used by `hoverTooltip`.
`sip.chapterDetection`	`auto`	`auto` \| `custom` \| `none`.
`sip.chapterPattern`	`""`	Custom chapter regex, used only when detection is `custom`.

Commands & keybindings

The second key is the same on every platform — only the modifier differs (Ctrl on macOS, Alt on Windows / Linux / WSL). On macOS, Alt/Option is a Unicode dead-key, so the bindings use Ctrl instead.

Command	macOS	Windows / Linux / WSL
`Sip: Open Book`	—	—
`Sip: Close Book`	—	—
`Sip: Previous Sentence`	`Ctrl+[`	`Alt+[`
`Sip: Next Sentence`	`Ctrl+]`	`Alt+]`
`Sip: Toggle Reading Mode`	`Ctrl+'`	`Alt+'`
`Sip: Toggle Visibility`	`Ctrl+\`	`Alt+\`
`Sip: Go to Chapter`	—	—
`Sip: Previous Chapter`	`Ctrl+Shift+[`	`Alt+Shift+[`
`Sip: Next Chapter`	`Ctrl+Shift+]`	`Alt+Shift+]`