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October 29th, 2010
On Thursday, Topicmarks activated a new release that lets you monitor the progress in condensing texts. It is also a lot snappier to load and use. Just upload any URL, text or document and you immediately see Topicmarks getting to work.
Before, we already estimated how much time you save when skimming a text with Topicmarks, Now, a new progress bar gives you a clear indication when the text knode will be finished, so that you don’t have to wait for the email confirmation to appear. If you’re interested in the nitty gritty of digital reading, you can also follow the detailed processing with the descriptions below.
Users who have discovered the new progress bar call it a major improvement:
- “a pleasure!”
- “Now topicmark’ing is a daily activity.”
- “It is fun and a time-saver.”
Test the new Topicmarks now!
Tags: clear, design, expectations, experience, interface, patience, process, product, progress, progress bar, ux, wait
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October 20th, 2010
Some users try out Topicmarks with texts that are too short to summarize. This is why we now have a new error message advising people to try Topicmarks with larger texts.
Topicmarks is designed to condense long texts into short summaries of 3-50 sentences. When your text is already 10 sentences or less, there is nothing for us to condense. To see the full power of Topicmarks, please try a text of at least a few pages.
NB Topicmarks cannot (yet) paraphrase text (put the same meaning in different words). If this is what you are looking for, you may want to try http://translate.google.com to translate your text into a foreign language and back.
Tags: different words, error message, few page, full power, Google, long texts, new error message, nothing, paraphrase, paraphrase text, please, same meaning, sentences, sforeign language, short summaries, texts, topicmarks, users
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October 17th, 2010
Topicmarks just added a brand new overview tab to its text knodes. The tab will give single glance access to all views of a text. The new tab will be the first users see.
Since the beta launch in March, Topicmarks has helped readers to grasp texts at a glance through a summary, a list of facts, a keyword cloud and a book index format. But you still had to cycle through the tabs to review all persectives and there was no easy way to compare two views with each other.
The new overview tab solves this problem. As the first tab you see for every new text knode, the overview tab gives you the default summary, the top facts, the top keywords and an index view all at a single glance. Each section contains a link to the corresponding tab, where you can then play with e.g. the length of the summary or the coverage of the index.
We’ve already noticed that the overview tab gives people even better insights into the text knodes they create, and we hope it will point more users to the power of the different views available on the other tabs.
Tags: click, cycle, default, facts view, feature, glance, index view, overview tab, quick, summarization, summary view, topicmarks, understand
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August 30th, 2010
This week’s Weekly Topicmarks update is the first edition of a new, much more personalized format. For the first time, it reveals your Brain expanding live.
Topicmarks Weekly Update Entirely Renewed
Before, Topicmarks sent you regularly sent updates and tips in one-size-fits-all articles. Now we also want to show you how your “Topicmarks brain” is learning and evolving. This week’s update is the first to integrate those amazing new features.
Reveals Your Brain, Your Texts, Your Facts, Your Knowledge
As you can see in this week’s update, every update now contains an amazing dynamic overview of all the concepts and keywords foremost in your “Topicmarks brain”. You can see where your knowledge is growing most strongly, and discover topics that are gradually entering your brain. There is also an overview of the latest texts you uploaded, statistics of how many facts you have gathered, and much easier ways to retrieve your password or update your profile.
Use Facebook to Let Us Know What You Think
Thousands of users are helping to make Topicmarks a better service every day, and we’re also looking forward to your comments on this fantastic new update. Do you like the new features of the update? Is it helping you to see facts in a new format, and find new topics of interest?
Tags: amazing, articles, awesome, brain, day, dynamic, entirely renewed, expanding, facebook page, first edition, new, new format, one-size-fits-all, overview, statistics, texts, thousands, topicmarks, update, updates, users, ways, week, weekly
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