Sometimes I need to read text very slowly, one word at a time to look for missing words, to look and hear and touch each individual word. I print text to revise, I think I’ll always have to take that step, words just read differently than online, but I find even with hard copy, touching each word with the tip of pencil, pretty soon I’ve forgotten what I’m trying to do and am rushing along editing content. I was thinking it might be nice to have an edit mode that highlighted one word at a time on a timer—or conversely grey out everything else. To force me to slow down.
You could make the text colour the same as the editor (e.g. white on white) so it’s invisible, then put the insertion point at the top and use Opt+Shift+RightArrow to select one word at a time, making just that word visible. Press the RightArrow key alone after you’re finished to clear the selection and move to the next word.
Thanks for the tip!
Getting your Mac to read your text back to you can be very useful. It can only read what you’ve written.
Your mind usually reads what it expects to read, rather than what is actually written on the page.