What would a text editor look like without a keyboard?
A while back I tried designing some interactions around this concept—combining voice input, GPT-3, and various swipe and touch gestures centered around central metaphors of "thread" and "strands"
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A while back I tried designing some interactions around this concept—combining voice input, GPT-3, and various swipe and touch gestures centered around central metaphors of "thread" and "strands"
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By using pinch/zoom gestures you can quickly interact with a piece of text by elaborating, summarizing, or generating alternate phrasings of a sentence (which I call strands)
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Strands could be written by you or synthesized through GPT-3, and at their core represent different versions of a set of words, sentence, or paragraph
So you can have many versions of a sentence and quickly swipe between them to get a sense of which ones feel best
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So you can have many versions of a sentence and quickly swipe between them to get a sense of which ones feel best
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Imagine: drag to select text, pinch to summarize, vertical unpinch to generate alternatives, *inspiration*, record new sentence to replace the old one
And voilà, you've explored multiple directions on the landscape of meaning and rewrote a sentence in just a few moments
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And voilà, you've explored multiple directions on the landscape of meaning and rewrote a sentence in just a few moments
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I'm very curious how these interactions would change the writing experience. It would be fascinating to try writing an essay using this imaginary piece of software!
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