peterwhitesell

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   by peterwhitesell 14y ago

   > I believe this behavior has a lot to do with the mechanical act of clicking, the sound and feedback that for some reason feels good and ends up becoming a compulsion. I'm a compulsive highlighter for most of the reasons people have de
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   by peterwhitesell 14y ago

   Even when typography isn't bad I've always had a hard time tracking back to the next line both with text on paper and on screens. My most common use is to highlight one line at a time, although I sometimes highlight to save my place (arbitr
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   by peterwhitesell 14y ago

   After a few days of use, I customized my readability (actually I use clearly now. http://evernote.com/clearly/ ) style to make highlighted text easier to read. After I moved to a theme with dark background and light text, the contrast betw
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   by peterwhitesell 14y ago

   Those sites bug me too, as a heavy user of highlighting. It also causes me problems reading editable text, for instance in a text editor. Sometimes I'll accidentally click and drag a selection to a different part of the text without noticin
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   by peterwhitesell 14y ago

   I've been doing this for about a year and a half now. I noticed my reading speed increased drastically along with this habit. I haven't done any actual measurements, but the speed difference is especially noticeable when I read from paper,
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   by peterwhitesell 14y ago

   I mostly use a trackpad. I interact with what I'm reading by two finger scrolling and tap-tap-drag highlighting.