diet fortune cookies is a lightweight utility that serves up randomly selected short sentences from three separate databases via a minimalist interface. It's useful for quick writing prompts, icebreakers, or a momentary distraction when you need a concise, unexpected line. Tap one of three buttons to fetch a sentence; the app shows the text long enough to read (display time varies with sentence length), lets you scroll longer entries, and allows loading a new sentence at any time. An internet connection is required to retrieve entries, and content includes both Italian and English sources.
Key Features
⭐ Three distinct databases in diet fortune cookies accessed by three buttons: un altro, another, and and more.
⭐ Random selection: press a button to display a sentence chosen at random from the selected database.
⭐ Adaptive display time that varies with sentence length and allows scrolling for longer entries.
⭐ Immediate refresh: you can load another sentence even while one is already shown.
⭐ Database sizes and languages are transparent: un altro 1433 Italian sentences, another 2141 English sentences from an old Unix archive, and and more 13842 English entries.
Advantages
✅ diet fortune cookies provides quick, distraction-free access to short prompts and lines for inspiration.
✅ A wide mix of material, including a historic Unix-derived collection and large open-access sets, gives varied outputs.
✅ Bilingual content covers Italian and English, useful for multilingual browsing.
✅ Simple controls make it fast to get a new sentence whenever you need one.
Disadvantages
❎ An active internet connection is required to retrieve sentences.
❎ Some sentences in another and and more may coincide due to overlapping sources.
❎ Content is limited to Italian and English entries; other languages are not provided.
Development Team
The author assembled parts of the corpus over time: the another collection was copied by the author from a Unix machine more than 30 years ago, while the remaining sentences were sourced from open-access areas on the internet and appear not to be protected by copyright.
