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I wrote something similar, but I had a different take on it. I let you paste in the text, then it steps you through breaking it apart, helping you to determine what each bit of text was, and a drag/drop UI to diagram it. But I approached it with a deliberate zero-AI approach. The idea is that careful reading of text is a skill, and many people are losing it. So I wanted to provide a playground for people to practice it.

I also figured that people who write badly might see what is wrong with their writing when a diagram shows just how off their words really are. My teenagers think that the resulting diagrams would be a brutal yet effective way to combat the misinformation online.

In any case, I wrote it. But then I stopped because I wasn't sure where to really take it. But it feels a bit validating to know that I'm not alone in seeing the value of breaking down written text.

parent codingdave 4 days ago

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