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lots of neat (and hopefully useful) things that can be added! i guess that's what OSS is for hehe.

-blink detection (using a webcam or forward facing camera?) to pause while your eyes are closed?

-hold-to-pause or hold-to-spritz button, and show context (+- a few lines) when not spritz-ing?

-point of focus slides slowly across the screen, to exercise those extraocular muscles

Thank you for open-sourcing this! At the moment I'm using sharelatex to keep a version of all my equations "alive" since every time someone tries to resave my word documents, the equations become rendered to images.

Unfortunately for me, Latex hasn't gained traction in our department. I think the main barriers to entry, for our lab at least, are:

1) Local installation is more difficult than installing Word. Sharelatex and other cloud-latex solutions solve this.

2) Word's comment and review tracking system is more intuitive. If you're reading a document electronically and want to insert a comment or make an edit in word, you just do it right there. With latex, you can use synclatex to go back and forth but this extra step is actually a non-insignificant barrier. Also, with latex, is there a way to make and see comments in the pdf/preview but have the comment also live somewhere in the source, AND have the comments be editable in both places? I suspect the answer is yes, but I just haven't found the right tool?

I haven't unlocked the "history" feature in sharelatex but does it come close to this?

Very cool! I'm a n00b to the music-notation-app-world, but was able to get going pretty quickly. I'm not sure if any of these are already standard features on most music notation apps...but I think keyboard shortcuts to the note/rest types would help. Maybe even an option to eliminate some clicks (just press the key corresponding to the note/rest to place it underneath current cursor position)

Then again, being a n00b, maybe I don't realize that speed-of-input isn't the bottleneck for composers hehe.

Does anyone know if the API can/will provide the raw EMG measurements? (I work in a lab that does this kind of recording with wired electrodes. A robust wireless interface that spits out the full bandwidth signal would be quite a useful research tool).

Anyway, even if it doesn't, I think this will still be awesome.