{"slug": "making-docs-easier-on-the-eyes", "title": "Making docs easier on the eyes", "summary": "A user prompted Claude, an AI assistant by Anthropic, to code a custom HTML reader for Google Docs after finding the platform's text hard on the eyes and incompatible with Firefox's Reader feature. The generated tool, which takes a minute or two to produce, converts pasted text into a more readable layout, offering relief for reviewing documents while avoiding privacy risks of Google Docs' Publish Link feature.", "body_md": "Firefox has a really great [Reader feature](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-reader-view-clutter-free-web-pages), which turns pages of long text into a more readable layout. It feels much softer on the eyes.\n\nHowever, it doesn’t work for Google Docs. And I have to review a lot of Google Docs, which I often find very hard on the eyes.\n\nYesterday, I described the problem I was experiencing to Claude, and prompted it for some solutions. One possible option was to use Google Docs’ Publish Link feature, which actually works with the Reader feature, however I didn’t want to risk losing privacy.\n\nI prompted Claude to code a solution. For additional context, I also downloaded an HTML file of one of the pages Reader had converted, and then uploaded it to Claude. It generated an HTML file that looks like this, which I can paste text into:\n\nHere’s an example of what Google Docs looks like, and the custom reader:\n\nIt makes for a much more pleasant reading experience. It took a minute or two for Claude to generate. Even though it’s only a very basic solution for reading—not text editing—I have found some relief in it.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/making-docs-easier-on-the-eyes", "canonical_source": "https://herbertlui.net/making-reading-docs-easier-on-the-eyes/", "published_at": "2026-08-08 15:11:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-09 16:42:00.988434+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["generative-ai", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Claude", "Anthropic", "Firefox", "Google Docs"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/making-docs-easier-on-the-eyes", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/making-docs-easier-on-the-eyes.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/making-docs-easier-on-the-eyes.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/making-docs-easier-on-the-eyes.jsonld"}}