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Word anchors · a reading setting in smry

Give every word a place to land.

Word anchors bold the first letters of each word so your eye stops guessing where the next one starts. Paste anything below to see it, then switch it on for every article you read in smry.

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With word anchors

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The eye stops, it does not glide

Reading is a series of jumps between fixation points. Most of the effort in a line goes into deciding where the next word begins.

A bold head is a landing pad

Weighting the first letters gives every jump an obvious target, so less attention is spent locating words and more is left for the sentence.

Nothing is rewritten

No summarizing, no reordering, no AI in the loop. The words, punctuation and order are exactly the author's — only the weight of a few characters changes.

It is one switch inside a full reader.

smry opens the article, strips the clutter, and lets you summarize, listen, highlight, and ask questions about it. Word anchors sit in the reader’s type settings, next to font, size, spacing and width — on when they help, off when they do not.

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Questions about word anchors

Word anchors bold the opening letters of each word so your eye has a fixed point to land on. The full text is preserved — only the weight of the first few characters changes.

For some people, yes; for others it makes no measurable difference. Independent studies of fixation-style formatting have found mixed results, so treat it as a comfort setting rather than a guaranteed speed boost. It is free to try on any article.

It is the same underlying idea — emphasizing the start of each word — implemented independently inside the smry reader. smry is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, any other reading-format product or trademark holder.

It works on anything smry can open. Paste a link, smry extracts the readable article, and word anchors apply to the whole piece — including highlights, notes, and text-to-speech, which all keep working normally.

No. The formatting is purely visual. Copying a passage, exporting to PDF or Markdown, and sharing a highlight all produce the original, unmodified text.

Yes. The tool on this page runs entirely in your browser, and the reader setting is stored locally on your device. An account is only needed if you want your library synced across devices.

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