Lev Manovich releases Text Time-lapse 2, a local browser tool that visualizes your writing process
round · x · 2026-11-09
Digital humanities scholar Lev Manovich released Text Time-lapse 2, a browser-based tool that animates how a text evolves across saved drafts, showing additions, deletions and rewrites.
- Runs entirely locally; files never leave your computer
- Word/block/page views, a 3D mode, and per-version playback animation
- Highlights strikethroughs, bolds rewrites, and color-codes edits; click a version bar to replay just that version
- Code is open-sourced on GitHub
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