Less Wrong Product & Service Recommendations

lukeprog

I have often benefited from recommendations for Things I Didn't Know I Wanted.

Given that Less Wrong is a community of unusually intelligent, critical, and self-improvement-focused people, I suspect we can generate a pretty helpful thread of product recommendations — perhaps even a monthly thread of product recommendations.

Rules:

Post one product your recommend per comment, so they can be discussed and voted on independently.
Provide a link for purchasing the product.
No books, movies, TV, games, or music. (These should go in other threads, like this one or this one.)

I'll post my own recommendations to the comments section, too.

I have often benefited from recommendations for Things I Didn't Know I Wanted.

Rules:

Post one product your recommend per comment, so they can be discussed and voted on independently.
Provide a link for purchasing the product.
No books, movies, TV, games, or music. (These should go in other threads, like this one or this one.)

I'll post my own recommendations to the comments section, too.

Textcelerator, a browser plugin that hacks your vision to make you read significantly faster. I made it because I really value being knowledgeable, and pre-existing speed reading software wasn't practical. I recently added Textcelerator for Sites, a version that can be embedded into blogs or other pages to enable speed-reading those pages without installing anything.

(Disclaimer: Payware with a free trial; I'm the author.)

Texcelerator is nicely done!

I use Spreed! http://www.spreeder.com/app.php for speed reading. It's free. The big hassle with using it, is the cut and paste.

0EmilYaroslav14y

Wow, brilliant idea! I've been doing some speedread-training and realised how much I could improve my speed. Your plugin is ingenius I must say! What you really should do to it improve though, is remove the "-" at the end of a sentence where a word is too long so the whole word is displayed together (shouldn't be too hard to fix?). At the moment this can make it quite hard to read some articles. You should also make it pause when it encounters a heading. Btw if you are looking for some help on devoloping it or promoting it, I might be able to help :)

2djcb14y

Thanks -- I just tried it. I'm intrigued, and in general always interested in these kind of experiments. Did you base it on some existing research? I use auto-scroll when reading PDFs sometimes, to force-feed me. One of the advantages seems to be that the mind is put under some stress, and less likely to wander off. BTW, I found that some words go together naturally when reading (say, a book title), and it's a bit confusing when textcelerator splits them.

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