PredictEd

There is a limit to how fast anyone can type, and a number of health conditions can make putting a lot of stress on your fingers difficult or even painful. A text editor that predicts what you want to type and completes your words and phrases can, therefore, prove very helpful.

PredictEd is an open-source text editor that looks quite basic at first glance, but it offers a very interesting feature – it can learn how you normally write and provide suggestions that both speed up the process and minimize hand strain.

To get started with PredictEd, simply start writing something. The application comes with a small database of words and phrases, which you will have to expand. It provides you with five word suggestions and three phrase suggestions, and you can cycle through them by pressing TAB.

In time, the most relevant suggestions will be displayed at the top of the list, thus speeding up typing even more. Of course, it may take a while for it to become truly useful.

Aside from learning your vocabulary and writing style based on what you type, PredictEd can also be extended using other documents.

You can load up to 20 text files at a time, and the application will add any new words to its database so that they can be given as suggestions later.

PredictEd allows you to change the default font and background color, but you cannot make quick style changes without accessing the Font menu. It would be great if some of these actions could be performed with hotkeys. The interface is not particularly impressive, and you cannot customize its layout in any way.

Overall, PredictEd does a lot of things right, especially when it comes to its auto-completion function, but it lacks some important features that may prevent it from replacing your standard text editor.