Seymour: Personal Typist

Meet Seymour. He's your personal typist.
What is Seymour: Personal Typist?
Seymour: Personal Typist is a Chrome extension that counts the characters you write on the web and reminds you to reduce paragraph length. It allows you to set individual character limits for each website and provides real-time feedback through color changes. Seymour also offers a feature to enforce character limits and prevent you from exceeding them.

Extension stats

Users: 91 ▼ -2
Rating: 4.18 (11)
Version: 1.5 (Last updated: 2015-09-09)
Creation date: 2015-02-15
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • tabs
  • http://*/*
  • https://*/*
Size: 119.81K
URLs: Website

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Extension summary

As you type anywhere on the web, Seymour keeps count of the characters that you write. Seymour can remind you to reduce the length of your paragraphs and can even prevent you from crossing a certain amount, set by you individually, for each website that you visit.

Seymour is unobtrusive and only shows its counter sign when you're writing. You can easily turn on or off Seymour for a certain website and can easily choose, for each website, a limit of characters you'd like to set for your self. Seymour will take care of the rest for you: he will show you character count with a light color change - starting from basic black to red as you get closer to your limit. This would help you grasp how much you've written.

If you choose to force that limit on your writings, Seymour will also show you that limit in its bubble and how many more characters you have left until you reach it. When you do, Seymour will forbid you from writing more in that text area. This is a nice little feature to help you stand in your own expectations.

User reviews

Easily the most used extension in Google Chrome. I love it! It works great for SEO professionals who are trying to see how many characters they've typed into a field. Thank you to whomever created it. It really is a life saver.
by Hantover, 2017-02-02

This will save you endless hassle (and clicks) if you have to prepare metadata, standfirsts or other content to strict character limits in spreadsheets or other web apps. Get it!
by Adam Gillett, 2015-09-09

Recommended :)
by Igal Steklov, 2014-05-09
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Seymour: Personal Typist requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Seymour: Personal Typist is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this extension.

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