So, the little flag thingy to inform me if I read my daily words doesnt really cut it for me. First of all I want to set my own number of daily words and secondly, I would like something very visible that I can’t oversee.
So I thought, well, I heard of this thing called customs scripts. And the number of read words should be in a variable somewhere, so theoretically a custom script (written by ChatGPT) could just read that variable and then do something.
But do I have even the littlest knowledge about JavaScript? Hell no. Or have I ever tried to build a custom script? Or coding with chatGPT? Also hell no.
So before embark on this confusing adventure: has any of you gals and guys ever tried a custom script on readlang themselves? If so, do you have any tipps you would share with me?
I do not think Readlang specifically supports any custom scripts or plugins (like, e.g. Anki).
However, it is possible to make adjustments using Tampermonkey scripts. See my post about it here:
So I had some success customizing Readlang with Tampermonkey scripts. The best part is that they work on mobile (with Edge browser).
I have two scripts.
One script adjust appearance of some parts of the interface (mostly font size). Basically, it just applies a custom CSS.
Another script translates words or phrases on select.
I use these scripts only on mobile, as desktop browsers support extensions that do the same but with better functionality.
Maybe an approach is to get an AI to write a Chrome extension that (conditionally) modifies the appearance of the streak icon at the top of the page, because if you click that you can find today’s current read word count. Maybe you could make it huge or add some text if you haven’t met the goal. But there’s a difficulty in that the AI needs some way to understand what the code looks like for this part of the page. You might have to just do some "inspect element"s and explain it to the AI. Probably some trial and error required.