In a perfect world, this would also integrate with Alfred on my mac so that it becomes extremely easy and quick to create a new private question
I’m thinking of creating a Chrome extension that will let you type /forecast Will x happen? anywhere on the internet, and it’ll create and embed an interactive Fatebook question.
I’m thinking of primarily focussing on Google Docs, because I think the EA community could get a lot of mileage out of making and tracking predictions embedded in reports, strategy docs, etc. This extension would also work in messaging apps, on social media, and even here on the forum (though first-party support might be better for the forum!).
The format could be “[question text]? [resolve date]” where the question mark serves as the indicator for the end of the question text, and the resolve date part can interpret things like “1w”, “1y”, “eoy”, “5d”
I’m interested in adding power user shortcuts like this!
Currently, if your question text includes a date that Fatebook can recognise, it’ll prepopulate the “Resolve by” field with that date. This works for a bunch of common phrases, e.g. “in two weeks” “by next month” “by Jan 2025″ “by February” “by tomorrow”.
If you play around with the site, I’d be interested to hear if you find yourself still keen for the addition of concise shortcuts like “2w” or if the current natural language date parsing works well for you.
Awesome! I have been wanting something like this for a while and am looking forward to trying it out.
See this previous comment of mine for some potentially interesting suggestions:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/cbtoajkfeXqJAzhRi/metaculus-year-in-review-2022?commentId=dotzeW2wxM5Avm7jL
(Excuse formatting; on mobile)
I’m thinking of creating a Chrome extension that will let you type
/forecast Will x happen?
anywhere on the internet, and it’ll create and embed an interactive Fatebook question.I’m thinking of primarily focussing on Google Docs, because I think the EA community could get a lot of mileage out of making and tracking predictions embedded in reports, strategy docs, etc. This extension would also work in messaging apps, on social media, and even here on the forum (though first-party support might be better for the forum!).
Great, thanks!
I’m interested in adding power user shortcuts like this!
Currently, if your question text includes a date that Fatebook can recognise, it’ll prepopulate the “Resolve by” field with that date. This works for a bunch of common phrases, e.g. “in two weeks” “by next month” “by Jan 2025″ “by February” “by tomorrow”.
If you play around with the site, I’d be interested to hear if you find yourself still keen for the addition of concise shortcuts like “2w” or if the current natural language date parsing works well for you.