The Hyperwords Company

User Guide

Digital text should be as interactive as digital games. Why should knowledge workers be constrained to only click on pre-made links and scrolling up and down?

Views are all about you deciding how the page should look, to make it quicker to skim the text and to give you more control while reading deeply. The View commands are likely to see a lot of change, as they are quite experimental, so please give us any feedback you might have.

First occurence

When you are reading a document and something is introduced but you have forgotten what it is later on, when you come across the word again all you need to do is select it and choose this command - you don't even need to click on it - just hover - and you'll see the first sentence in the menu itself.

Keyboard shortcut phrase: vf (though better used by mouse, to get results in the menu)

All occurences

This is the command to see all occurences of the selected text, giving you a quick outline of where it appears in the document.

Keyboard shortcut phrase: va (though better used by mouse, to get results in the menu)

Last occurence

This command was thought of as a quick way to access the bibliography of a document.

Keyboard shortcut phrase: vl (though better used by mouse, to get results in the menu)

Highlight

Gives all the occurences of the selected text a yellow background.

Keyboard shortcut phrase: vi

Flow

This is a relatively experimental View which reformats the text to make it, hopefully, easier to read.

Keyboard shortcut phrase: vf

Sentences with...

Shows only sentences which contain the selected text.

Keyboard shortcut phrase: vs

Paragraphs with...

Shows only paragraphs with the selected text. The other paragraphs do not disappear, they become one line long and turn gray. You can click on them to expand them.

Keyboard shortcut phrase: vp

Lift selected text

This command grays everything that is not selected and puts the selected text in a white box. The reason for this command is to give you a simple and clear reading area if you are reading on an over-designed webpage.

NOTE: Click on the gray area to dismiss the box. You may do further Hyperwords commands on this text in the box, including View commands.

Keyboard shortcut phrase: vl

Hide selected text

Hides the selected text. Useful when there is a lot to of complicated material to read and you want to only look at what's left.

Keyboard shortcut phrase: vp