Inky: A Sloppy Command Line for the Web

Michael Bernstein
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A demo of Inky, a research prototype from MIT that gives the web a command line which accepts loose, abbreviated commands and responds with rich visual feedback. It was presented as a UIST 2008 research project.

HN people point to it when asking for command-line usability research and as a relative of Mozilla Ubiquity.

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@hazelnut-tree2022 · in “Inky: A sloppy command line for the web with rich visual feedback (2008) [video]”
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@gojomo2009 · in “Ask HN: do you know of any commandline usability / improvement research?”
You may want to look at Inky -- it's not traditional console/text, but rather taking some of that feel into a "command-line for the web with rich visual feedback: Inky: A Sloppy Command Line for the Web ▶ this video
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@gojomo2009 · in “Mozilla Ubiquity: a ridiculously useful Firefox extension”
If you like Ubiquity, you should also look at Inky, "a sloppy command-line interface for the web": ▶ this video link
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