Making docs easier on the eyes

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.

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. However, 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. Yesterday, 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. I 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: Here’s an example of what Google Docs looks like, and the custom reader: It 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.