SetSee [MVP]

This listing—describing both “SetSee” and this browser extension implementation of it—has 6 parts:

1. Overview
2. Behavior
3. What Web Pages It Can Filter
4. Key Aspects & Features
5. Why You’ll Appreciate This Extension
6. The 1st Task To Do After Installing the Extension

OVERVIEW SetSee is a UI technique that supplements and improves on the scrollbar and “find” commands typically used when long content is displayed, and this browser extension is an add-on implementation of that technique, for Chrome. SetSee tries to identify patterns of repeated TEXT elements that are displayed in a window on your monitor (perhaps text with accompanying images)—e.g. lists, tables, paragraphs in articles, glossary terms) and pops up a search panel for you to do searching on those elements (called “items” in SetSee terminology).

You type a few words in the search field in the pop-up to “search” the textual contents of the content currently displayed on your screen, and SetSee dynamically shrinks that content—for each keyboard key that you press—by temporarily removing the items of the page that DON’T match and thus are not of interest to you. This helps you “zero in on” just the information you want within that long content.

If you want to try SetSee out BEFORE installing the extension, you can visit one of the “try it yourself” pages listed at http://SetSee.com/demos; these pages use an embedded version of SetSee to let you use it on a single demo Web page, without installing anything. Another such demo page is the General FAQ at http://SetSee.com/FAQ, which answers general questions people have about the SetSee method and extension.