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Our "extreme" view is that no amount of optimization and local storage will save your mind from dark patterns of your smartphone.
P.S. We love to be downvoted to oblivion on HN. Thanks.:)
Well this is... eerie. I just released Stictionary[1] on Friday. It is an offline, ad free, dictionary that remembers words you look up. It gives a word of the day and provides (admittedly underfeatured atm) flashcards to review your word lists. It includes optional syncing to keep your word lists across devices. I've been holding off posting about it while i complete the website[2]. Love to see someone else had such…
I've also tracked a lot of words I have needed to look up, but made little posts out of the interesting ones. Of course, I immediately forget all these definitions, but that just makes it fun to go back through them. https://coldewey.cc/tag/vocabulary/
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It's very stupid, but I check dictionary definitions in an incognito window because I'm horrified of someday people coming across my browser history and thinking "Wow, he didn't know the definition of that ?! What an idiot!" The idea of a dictionary that tracks my searches horrifies me in a silly way. Ha!
Looking up words is not stupid. Misusing words because you assume you know what they mean, that is stupid.
That's for the ML algorithms to decide.
> I promise I didn't have my expectations too high, I only had a few core principles Proceeds to list 6 pretty high requirements. The author’s not wrong, those are good requirements, but not to be expected from any standard app these days. To dig on the first: “ Offline support”, this in itself requires a lot of work. Going the technically easy way will often go in direct opposite to your business model (mobile ads o…
What work are you talking about? How is accessing local filesystem more work than calling external API with authorization?
Nice tool. I would like to announce our movement. It is called "Life without a smartphone". We are the minority of today. We love to use real computers and open web for our daily work and avoid using smartphones, data silos and user hostile products. Our "extreme" view is that no amount of optimization and local storage will save your mind from dark patterns of your smartphone. P.S. We love to be downvoted to oblivio…
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Looking up words is not stupid. Misusing words because you assume you know what they mean, that is stupid.
I suppose you could look at it that way. I certainly did, and it has taken me a very (stupid) long time come to a slightly different understanding. Not saying it is better necessarily. I just find it closer to true more of the time in my life. Misusing words may or may not be stupid—without more information, including some nebulous stuff about intent and interpretation, I have no way of saying for sure in a given enc…
Well this is... eerie. I just released Stictionary[1] on Friday. It is an offline, ad free, dictionary that remembers words you look up. It gives a word of the day and provides (admittedly underfeatured atm) flashcards to review your word lists. It includes optional syncing to keep your word lists across devices. I've been holding off posting about it while i complete the website[2]. Love to see someone else had such…
It's very stupid, but I check dictionary definitions in an incognito window because I'm horrified of someday people coming across my browser history and thinking "Wow, he didn't know the definition of that ?! What an idiot!" The idea of a dictionary that tracks my searches horrifies me in a silly way. Ha!
Well this is... eerie. I just released Stictionary[1] on Friday. It is an offline, ad free, dictionary that remembers words you look up. It gives a word of the day and provides (admittedly underfeatured atm) flashcards to review your word lists. It includes optional syncing to keep your word lists across devices. I've been holding off posting about it while i complete the website[2]. Love to see someone else had such…
> Great confirmation of the unmet need in the space. Hmmm, I've been using a dictionary app for years that is offline, ad-free, remembers words you look up, and has a word of the day feature. Also has favorites and you can add personal notes on entries. It's also free. It's based on Wictionary. I use the ones for Spanish and Portuguese but I think they have versions for many languages. The name is fairly generic "Spa…
Adding to the long list of features,... full verb conjugation tables and audio for most words.