rahulkarda / bionic-reader

A simple chrome extension designed to help you read faster and more efficiently.

Bionic Reader - Read Faster!

A simple chrome extension designed to help you read faster and more efficiently.

Here's an example of Bionified text to demonstrate the speed!

(example text from jiffy reader)

Development

First, clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/rahulkarda/bionic-reader.git

Then, follow this instruction to develop unpacked extensions in Chrome.

Algorithm Specification

We allow you to customize highlight algorithm using a string similar to this:

- 0 1 1 2 0.4

Note that all numbers and characters are separated by a space. Here is what this string means:

- 0 1 1 2 0.4
^

The first character can be either - or +. If it is -, we don't highlight common english words (for example 'a', 'and', etc.) if it is '+' we highlight all words.

- 0 1 1 2 0.4
  ^

This specifies the number of highlighted characters for words with length 1. For example 'a' and 'I'. Here we have specified that we don't want to highlight these characters.

- 0 1 1 2 0.4
    ^

This specifies the number of highlighted characters for words with length 2. For example 'an' and 'or'. Here we have specified that we highlight the first character of these words.

- 0 1 1 2 0.4
      ^

Highlight the first character of 3 letter words.

- 0 1 1 2 0.4
        ^

Highlight the first two character of 4 letter words.

- 0 1 1 2 0.4
           ^

Unlike the previews entries, the last entry is a fractional value between 0 and 1 which specified which fraction of words that are not specified by previous rules must be highlighted. For example, here we highlight the first 40% characters of words with 5 or more characters.

Credit

Bionic Reader is a modified fork of Bionify.