Learn English while browsing the web by highlighting words that you don't know yet.

⚠️ Work in progress – current version is a pure MVP, but useful already!

Get here ➡️ https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/words-unknown/mmjhgjcmfmjmahgjhkjfondhnmlfeacj

How to use

• Click on extension icon to activate it
• Extension will parse the website and highlight words you don't have in your dictionary
• Click on highlighted words to add them to the dictionary
  • If the highlight is part of the link, hold cmd key while clicking to open the link instead of adding the word.
  • Hold the d key while clicking to open the dictionary instead of adding the word.
  • Click again on an added word to remove it from dictionary

Features (and future futures)

• Customizable highlight colors
• Capitalized words are subtly outlined instead of highlighted with background color
• Dictionary presets
• Export to file for backup

Planned (contributions welcome 🙏)

• Add "n" most frequent words
  • norvig.com/mayzner
  • pastebin.com/anKcMdvk
  • en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Frequency_lists#Project_Gutenberg
  • en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Frequency_lists
• Customizable everything
• Matching by stem (optional)
  • github.com/words/stemmer
• Optimized data structure for storing dictionary
  • github.com/zandaqo/structurae
  • johnresig.com/blog/javascript-trie-performance-analysis/
• Undo/Redo
• History
• Root element selection
• Open in dictionary
• Turning on/off

About the name

Word play on amazing Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown

Tech stack notes

• Options UI
  • github.com/alpinejs/alpine – wanted to try it out, it did it's job, but I would use Vue next time.

Attributions

• Presets / Familiar words
  • github.com/words/spache
  • github.com/words/dale-chall
• Example
  • github.com/matejlatin/Gutenberg