Bounding the Blank Page Barrier
Blink. Blink. Blink. Blink. Blink.
Not everyone knows the name of the blinking vertical bar that pops up every time you have to write something down (keep reading, you'll find out), but its image is seared within our collective memory. Blinking, slowly, deliberately, methodically. It's like the UX designer was tasked to dilute the Jeopardy theme into its most basic form. Hurry up, write something down. It stares at us impatiently tapping its little two-dimensional feet.
"Hey, write something" it yells, "write something, why don't ya? Do you not want to write something? Hey! Hey! Hey!"
Ok, so maybe we're exaggerating a bit, but sometimes, the greatest hurdle to getting things down on the paper is 20 pixels tall. It's maybe not a surprise then that generative AI has caught on the way it has. We all have an innate uneasiness with blank pages, and putting words to the page can be difficult, so why not have AI do the job for us?
However, what if there was a way to leap over this barrier while staying true to our own words? The words, quite frankly, that matter most.
That's where our WordQ software can come quite in handy. Within WordQ exist several different solutions designed to help bring life to the blank screen. WordQ's Word Prediction feature, for instance, can help provide a place to start. Sometimes it just takes a single word to spur creativity. That's why our product is called WordQ, because it cues the words (Ok, yes, you got us, even we replace words with letters sometimes. Sorry, 'u' got us! 😉)
Its Dictation feature helps in those moments where you think out faster than you can write. ThoughtQ Dynamic Topics, built into WordQ Desktop and Chrome, help provide a jumping off point to drive research and help broaden understanding of the world around us.
Getting words on the page isn't always easy. A mischievous vertical line sometimes provides the only sign of life in an endless sea of white nothingness. But with WordQ, you can break through this barrier and populate the page with the words that matter. Your own. Because a blank page is only blank until the first word is written.
As a special bonus to those who have read to the end, the infamous "vertical typing bar" actually goes by many names. The "cursor" (not to be mistaken with the clicker/cursor), the "text cursor", the "caret", the "blinking line thingie" and the "insertion point" are a few of many.