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I built carefulwords.com simply because I wanted to type a word into the address bar and get a large list of synonyms and some historical quotes using the word
by simonsarris 3y ago
I built carefulwords.com simply because I wanted to type a word into the address bar and get a large list of synonyms and some historical quotes using the word quickly. For example:
https://carefulwords.com/solitude https://carefulwords.com/solitude
https://carefulwords.com/think https://carefulwords.com/think
etc. Also unlike thesaurus.com, the search bar actually focuses so you can just start typing!
It's not perfect, I need to do a lot of editing, but nonetheless I use it almost every time I write, now.
The site is a little over 30,000 static HTML pages built with a number of TypeScript scripts that compile some sources for synonyms, parts of speech, and the quotes.
- greenpeas 3y agoThis is really cool! Could you please add a keyboard shortcut for focusing the input field? (perhaps a forward slash '/' like on Youtube or Github)
- simonsarris 3y agoSure thing, I'll add that tonight.
- dombili 3y agoThis is awesome! I'll definitely use it. It'd be a one time stop for me if it supported definitions (similar to Collins Dictionary) but beggars can't be choosers.
- davak 3y agoAdded as a Kagi bang! Love it.
- gniv 3y agoI like it, especially the quotes. Reminds me of linguee.fr, which I use often while learning French.
- kristopolous 3y agoIt's worth noting the best thesaurus I've found is onelook. Compare to the solitude results https://onelook.com/thesaurus/?s=solitude https://onelook.com/thesaurus/?s=solitude This is by datamuse who also does rhymezone (https://datamuse.com/ https://datamuse.com/)
- simplify 3y agoOnelook is incredible. Indispensable for any art of writing.
- AnonC 3y agoThis is wonderful, and fast too (because it’s static I guess)! Thanks for building it. I’ll be checking it when I need some inspirational quotes surrounding a word.
- kccqzy 3y agoI don't particularly care about synonyms (when I consulted a thesaurus too much my writing became too flowery) but the historical quotes feature was just great! I can imagine downloading the full text of several of my favorite authors and index the words from that corpus.
- greenpeas 3y agoSometimes I know that a precise word for what I want to say exists, and I'll know it when I see it, but I can't quite remember it in the moment. In those cases I search thesaurus for synonyms to related words; or maybe ask ChatGPT these days.
- gmac 3y agoSlightly similarly, I made a searchable word list to help with doing or compiling puzzles: https://jawj.github.io/wordtools/ https://jawj.github.io/wordtools/ (the ‘anagrams’ link does nothing yet).
- feiss 3y agothis is lovely!! neat, clean and useful. I'm gonna use it, thanks for making it!