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Re: Show HN: idea for the future of document editing

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Post by DeepDuh »

blrgeek wrote: post #24

This is very very cool, and makes for a good demo too. One suggestion would be to put the latest topic on top - or at least vertically near where you type. Second being able to pick the corpus being used for matching. might make it interesting. Say IEEE or ACM, or PubMed. Might bring up interesting things that others have written that are similar, which they've not noticed before. I can see a very good match with tec…

Oh yes. Give me what you just described, integrated into a typesetting system that can produce scientific papers of LaTex quality (or, simply, a LaTex editor like Kile) and make citations to those sidebar infos drag & droppable, with links to the fulltext PDF (might need integrated Login handling for the electronic publishers).

Second idea: Scratch that and integrate it into a PDF reader instead and instead of drag & drop give me the citations as plaintext popups (this way it would be useful for other purposes, even book reading).

Re: Show HN: idea for the future of document editing

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Post by jcla1 »

saurik wrote: post #32
jcla1 wrote: post #26

Is it just me, or are we missing the source code? Would be nice to have a peek. Edit: Sorry, didn't see that is was just JS! EditEdit: But where is the source to /keywords

(Did the developer claim somewhere the implementation was open source?)

No, but if it wasn't I would obfuscate my JS... ?

Re: Show HN: idea for the future of document editing

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Post by timkly »

I would like to see the ability to drag and drop the text directly into the editor... and an ability to choose the sources for obtaining information (Wolfram Alpha, Wikipedia etc). Also, if you could highlight individual results and run a lookup against them you could drill down even further making the information more relevant... and as a sidenote, I be would inclined to target the student market whom could use this as a study tool (or lifesaver for last minute assignments)

Re: Show HN: idea for the future of document editing

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Post by sillysaurus »

Great job! I encourage you to continue improving it.

I pasted a Paul Graham essay and the results were telling:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/315/random_pics/nlp1.png

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/315/random_pics/nlp2.png

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/315/random_pics/nlp3.png

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/315/random_pics/nlp4.png

In short, the results aren't relevant at all -- either to the author or to his audience. (The third screenshot is particularly conspicuous.)

I can think of some domains where this could be pretty handy -- you should try feeding your algorithm a stream of tweets and see what happens.

All in all, this hasn't been done before and was presented quite nicely. Well done.

Re: Show HN: idea for the future of document editing

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Post by tomjen3 »

An interesting idea, but it comes up with really, really useless suggestion -- I don't think anybody needs to be told what don't is, west may be a cardinal direction but 'in the west we enjoy' does not refer to particular side of a compass.

Also for some reason it blinks with 1. AD is a year (I did write the word one, but it really shouldn't blink).

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