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Use Your Headphones as a Text Editing Tool
The listen function can highlight errors your eyes may have missed.
As I approach my 100th story here on Medium, I have developed a set routine when preparing my material. One essential part of that routine is to run the Listen function as soon as my work is published. And I mean immediately.
Desire to Pee
A few days ago, I was going through the final stages of publishing a story; finding a suitable image, typing Alt Text, creating subtitles, and adding tags. You know the score. I desperately wanted to hit the Publish button, as I was in need of the toilet. Yet, I put my desire to pee on hold for four minutes, as I donned my headphones and hit the Listen button as soon as it became available.
I do this because any little errors that may be in my text will come to light, and I can correct them immediately, before anyone has read my story. This is important to me, as I want my published material to be as error-free as is possible. So, while picking up typos is not its original purpose, the listen function acts as a thorough editing assistant that will spot the tiniest mistakes.
But this handy tool has a use that goes deeper than drawing your attention to typos that got through. If you accidentally typed intrinsc, where…
