This is such a useful functionality. I didn’t knew about this method of speed-reading. All this while the only thing I have used is the Edge browsers immersive reader.
I always struggled with reading anything faster. It’s been a really long time and I still havent able aquire this habit of fast reading yet.
After using this SwiftRead extension for a while now. I can see the true potential of RSVP. This really looks promising for me to aquire this power, I wished for so long.
Although the idea of reading the content from our vault is really nice, but I think different users have different kind of contents. And hence, I think the true power of this idea can be realised if it can be used for reading books and articles.
So, ofcourse alongwith a standalone plugin, this could be a great addon for PDF files. I had this another idea of Library plugin in Obsidian which is I still couldn’t able to start yet. Maybe, this can be added in it, kind of like extracting 5 pages content per batch and scrolling through it. And if we can have the integration of text-to-speech, that will be a god-send. Hopefully I’ll able to read more books this way.
@inattendu the plugin looks really good. Glad that someone brought this to Obsidian. Looking forward to using your plugin and hopefully contributing in any way i can. Just a suggestion for now, if DashReader can show 5 to 6 words enlarged instead of a single word at a time, just how it’s shown in the image posted by OP, that will be great. (Maybe it can be configured as a setting, so user can decide it)