Digital Diet

Digital Diet overview

A mobile app to provide stats (emotion, knowledge, and actionability) to promote more mindful browsing and disincentivize doomscrolling. Please note that to use the app’s full functionality, you’ll need to download, link, and use the Digital Diet Chrome extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/my-digital-diet/hkpmbicepkchiicbgbdofjgiblfejjcj. Digital Diet is a simple yet powerful app that adds ‘content labels’ to Google search results in real time. Just like nutrition labels help you make better choices about what enters your body, ‘content labels’ can help you take control of what enters your mind, potentially reducing doomscrolling and time wasted on mindless browsing. It helps you identify: Actionability: To what extent information on a webpage is useful on average. Knowledge: To what extent information on a webpage helps people understand a topic, on average. Emotion: The emotional tone of the webpage—whether people find the content positive or negative, on average. Why Use Digital Diet? Save Time: Quickly identify the webpages that meet your browsing goals, without wasting time on irrelevant links. Learn More: Easily find content that deepens your understanding. Feel Better: Increases awareness of the emotional tone of content before you click, which can help you avoid doomscrolling. How Does It Work? This mobile supplements our web browser extension that uses language analysis algorithms to evaluate webpage content based on text patterns—much like how you’d judge an article by skimming it, but now you don’t have to!