The moment I opened the article and started reading an idea came to me before reaching the authors solution. Imagine if you could just double tap a word and suddenly it becomes focused and enlargened while slightly blurring the rest of the text. The word in question now has easily targetable tap targets that you can modify quickly, swipe up to delete, rearrange, select etc like a sliding puzzle game. Like everyone I've had the same problem but in a majority of the cases its to fix something that the phone suggested or accidentally added to the directory that I can't easily remove (thanks ios) and nothing overly complex.