Welcome to TextData

TextData predicts and answers your questions on any webpage.

Answers are provided from a generative language model, web search results, and user-created submissions to TextData.

TextData also supports communities - where you and other TextData users can see each other's questions for any webpage and make submissions to answer these questions.

To get started, click the Onboarding button below.

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Our Mission

To remove the barriers of online information discovery.

Effortlessly Search From Anywhere

Use our Chrome Extension to ask and answer questions while viewing any webpage.

Get Predicted Questions

Highlight some text and open the extension to the Find Tab to see a predicted questions and answers.

Refine Questions

Type a single word or phrase in the search bar to update questions with your typed intent. Add a '?' at the end of your typed query to ask something without any prediction.

Help Others

Your anonymized highlights, asked questions, and clicks will be made available to the members of your selected community.

Form Communities

Communities help you organize and scope information according to a particular group or need.

Create Communities

Make one for a class, an enterprise team, a research group, or for private personal notes.

Join Communities

Joining a community lets you view everything in the community and make submissions to that community.

Share and Follow Communities

Making a community public lets others follow it, search the content, and provide feedback.

See What Others Highlight, Ask, and Click

Asked questions by other community members can be browsed by community or by webpage.

See What Community Members Are Asking

Browse a time-ordered feed of questions that your community members have asked.

See What Has Been Asked On Any Webpage

Browse the most popular asked questions for any webpage.

Copy Question Markdown

Copy the question markdown and include it a submission that answers the question.

Save Helpful Information

Create and save markdown-style notes/bookmarks to enrich your community's search space.

Optionally Add a Source URL

Adding a Source URL will link your notes to an external webpage. Use this to reference something online (e.g., a lecture video).

Add a Title and Description

The title should briefly describe the note's purpose, and the description can be whatever you like. In the description, you can also link other submissions to create wiki-style connections among submissions in a community.

Tag a Question

Including the copied question markdown in the description will help the submission show up in search results when people ask that question (or similar questions).

Frequently Asked Questions

How can I report a bug, give a suggestion, or discuss a concern?

Please use the "Feedback" link in the footer or email Kevin Ros at [email protected]

Do I need to make a community before using the question prediction feature of the extension?

No, you do not - you can perform all searches via the "Public" community.

What is the "Public" community in the extension?

The Public community is meant to be a global space where any asked question is made available to all TextData users.

Who can see the questions that I ask in the extension?

All displayed questions are currently anonymous - we do not show other users the usernames affiliated with the questions.
Regarding the display of this anonymous data, it depends on the selected community before the search. If you select "Public", then your question will be made available to all TextData users in the TextData Live "Public" feed. If you select "All", then your question will be made available to all members of your joined and followed communities. If you select a specific community, then only members of that community will be able to see your question.

How can I search using TextData without anyone seeing my questions?

If you create a private community with you as the only member (e.g., "My Private Community") and select this community in your extension Find tab, then any subsequent searches while the community is selected will only be available to you.

What should I do if the highlight doesn't register?

For some pages, your highlighted text will not be captured by the extension (e.g., on PDFs). For searching, you'll need to type a full question. And for saving, you'll need to manually copy and paste the text to the description field.