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Reading Ruler

For eyes that keep skipping lines: a lit band that glides over the text and dims everything above and below it, so you stop losing your place.

What are we reading?

Ruler style

You know the move: you read the same sentence four times, and on the fifth your eyes skip three lines down and pretend that's where you were all along. Nothing wrong with you. A wall of text gives your eyes nothing to hold on to. This band fixes that: one lit strip, everything else faded, so you always know where you are. Move it with your mouse or finger, or tab to it and steer with the arrow keys. Focus mode gets stricter: only the current line stays lit, snapped to the text. Paste your own thing whenever — an email, a chapter, the terms and conditions you're definitely about to read.

The band follows your cursor or finger. Keyboard: Tab to the band, then ↑/↓ a line at a time, PgUp/PgDn for jumps, Home/End for the ends.

Pasted text stays in this tab — nothing saved, nothing sent

Why a band instead of just trying harder?

Losing your line isn't a character flaw — it's what happens when every line on the page competes for the same attention. Dimming everything but one strip removes the competition, so re-reading the same sentence four times stops being the tax on finishing a paragraph.

Do this now: paste the thing you've been "about to read" all week, switch on focus mode, and get through the first screen without your eyes wandering once.

Read the guide on reading when the words won't stay