What are you working on? December 2011

jsalvatier

This is the sixth bimonthly 'What are you working On?' thread. Previous threads are here. So here's the question:

What are you working on?

Here are some guidelines:

Focus on projects that you have recently made progress on, not projects that you're thinking about doing but haven't started.
Why this project and not others? Mention reasons why you're doing the project and/or why others should contribute to your project (if applicable).
Talk about your goals for the project.
Any kind of project is fair game: personal improvement, research project, art project, whatever.
Link to your work if it's linkable.

This is the sixth bimonthly 'What are you working On?' thread. Previous threads are here. So here's the question:

What are you working on?

Here are some guidelines:

Focus on projects that you have recently made progress on, not projects that you're thinking about doing but haven't started.
Why this project and not others? Mention reasons why you're doing the project and/or why others should contribute to your project (if applicable).
Talk about your goals for the project.
Any kind of project is fair game: personal improvement, research project, art project, whatever.
Link to your work if it's linkable.

First, I'm working on Textcelerator, which I recently released and am now incorporating feedback into and improving. It's a browser plugin for speed-reading on web sites, for Chrome and Firefox, using a modified version of rapid serial visual presentation.

Second, I'm starting a blog. Partially as a platform for talking about and draw attention to Textcelerator, but mostly to write about unrelated things. I have felt for quite some time that my mind has a lot of very-important knowledge which is being wasted because I don't write enough. More on that in a few days; there'll be substantial overlap with Less Wrong's topics of interest.

I'm loving the textcelerator! Also, I've been feeling a bit insecure about my reading speed, but this thing says that I'm 400+ when I don't feel that I'm reading quickly so I'm pretty happy about that. Also, I think it's brilliant that it highlights words of negation (though there are some other tricky words that would probably be worth highlighting because they change the meaning of the sentence e.g. though, however, despite, etc).

I was also planning on writing more to improve my retention of information. Please keep me updated on your progress.

2DanB14y

I can verify as a relatively unbiased observer that this app is actually quite cool - everyone interested in increasing their productivity should try it out.

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