Gaze — Focus Engine for Deep Reading Chrome extension security report

The modern web is an overwhelming wall of text. When reading on a screen, your eyes constantly jump between lines, lose their position, and suffer visual fatigue. Standard speed-readers attempt to solve this by flashing single words at blinding speeds—creating visual chaos, stripping sentence structure, and destroying your ability to actually absorb information. Gaze was engineered for a completely different purpose: **Deeper Comprehension.** Gaze has re-engineered speed-reading technology to serve focus and memory rather than raw skimming. By holding your visual position steady and delivering text in complete, natural thoughts, Gaze eliminates visual friction so your mind can focus 100% on understanding, analyzing, and retaining what you read. --- ### 🧠 RE-ENGINEERING HOW YOU ABSORB TEXT (Cue some fancy scientific sounding words :D) ✦ Syntactic Thought-Chunking Standard tools flash isolated words, forcing your brain to piece sentences back together. Gaze uses smart language processing to group words into natural, grammatical ideas (e.g., [in the middle of] [the report] vs [in] [the] [middle] [of] [the] [report], where [ ] is one frame). You absorb complete thoughts at a time, preserving rhythm and structural logic. ✦ Stationary Visual Anchoring Every phrase is centered around a fixed crimson focal letter inside a stationary target reticle. Your eye muscles remain completely still—eliminating the constant eye-jumping that causes mental strain and screen fatigue. ✦ Dual-View Context Anchoring Single-location reading usually destroys your mental map of a document. Gaze surrounds your focal stream with a live Active-Paragraph Panel and a visual Spatial Map, keeping you continuously anchored to the surrounding text layout. ✦ 1-Key Active Knowledge Capture (Sustained Attention & Recall) Passive reading leads to mind-wandering and zero retention. Gaze transforms reading into an active engagement loop. Tap 'H' or 'C' to instantly clip the active sentence, or hold 'H' to capture continuous passages as you read. Giving your hands an active role keeps your attention locked and your brain actively synthesizing. Export your captures to Markdown, JSON, CSV, or sync them directly into your Obsidian vault with a single click. ✦ 3-Line Context Magnifier Stumble on a dense formula or complex sentence? Hold Shift or hover over the reader to instantly open a 3-line window showing the preceding sentence, active phrase, and next sentence—giving you instant visual context without leaving your flow. ✦ Zero-Disorientation Reading Continuity When you pause or close Gaze, the reader automatically highlights your exact stopping sentence on the original webpage and smoothly scrolls your browser viewport directly to it. You land back on the page seamlessly without ever asking, "Where was I?" ✦ Auto-Rewind Runway & Dynamic Pacing Gaze adjusts to the density of what you read. It automatically injects subtle micro-pauses at major headings, sentence breaks, and rare or complex vocabulary. Pausing to digest an idea? When you press play, Gaze steps backward a few words to give your working memory a visual "runway" back into the sentence flow. --- ### 🎛️ TAILORED TO YOUR BRAIN'S SWEET SPOT Every mind processes information differently—especially neurodivergent readers, researchers, and students managing high-density material. Gaze is engineered to work flawlessly straight out of the box, but offers modular controls so you can dial in your personal focus sweet spot: * Optional End-of-Paragraph Intermission Cards for structural reflection * Automatic citation link stripping (`[1]`, `[2]`) for clean academic reading * Adjustable phrase chunk size and starting speed ramps * 4 dark/light themes (Obsidian Dark, Midnight Blue, Ivory Light, Cyber Amber) * 4 self-hosted, legibility-tested typefaces (Inter, JetBrains Mono, Roboto, Atkinson Hyperlegible) --- ### 🎮 INSTANT FLOW-STATE CONTROLS * Space: Play / Pause (Auto-saves your exact reading location) * Left / Right Arrow: Jump sentence-by-sentence * Cmd/Ctrl + Left / Right Arrow: Jump paragraph-by-paragraph * Up / Down Arrow or Scroll Wheel: Adjust speed on the fly * Shift (Hold) or Mouse Hover: Open 3-Line Context Magnifier * H (Tap): Capture active sentence * H (Hold): Stream continuous highlight capture --- ### 🔒 100% PRIVATE & LOCAL Your reading habits belong to you. Gaze operates entirely on your local machine with zero remote tracking, zero network requests, and zero data collection. All settings, reading progress, and clipped highlights stay safely inside your browser. Stop fighting dense walls of text. Experience deep focus, active clarity, and effortless reading retention with Gaze.