Nothing typed is lost
The draft saves shortly after you stop typing. If a save fails, a copy is kept on your device and retried until it lands, and your next visit offers to restore it.
Long-form editor
Draft long documents in a calm editor with outline navigation, word goals, focus and typewriter modes, local style statistics, and four export formats.
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ROUGH NOTES → STRUCTURE → LONG FORM
What this is
The editor is a plain writing surface with a toolbar for section headings, subheadings, bold, italic, block quotes, bulleted and numbered lists, dividers, and a button that returns a mangled block to an ordinary paragraph. Everything else in the top bar helps you stay with a long draft.
Documents that run to thousands of words behave differently from short ones. You lose your place, you cannot tell whether section four has drifted, and you stop being able to judge your own sentences. The tools around this editor aim squarely at those three problems and nothing else.
How it works
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Navigate by structure
Every heading you write appears in the outline in the sidebar, updated as you type. Clicking one scrolls to that section and flashes it briefly, which on a chapter of several thousand words replaces scrolling entirely.
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Narrow the view
Focus hides the sidebars and leaves the draft alone on screen. Typewriter mode keeps the line you are working on centred and dims the rest of the page. Both are toggles in the top bar and work together.
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Aim at a number
Set a word goal for the document and a progress bar fills as you write, showing the count, the target and the percentage. Beside it a session counter tracks the words added since you opened the page.
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Inspect the prose
The Stats panel reports sentence count, average sentence length, how many sentences run past thirty words, adverb density, passive constructions, reading ease and reading time, then names the patterns worth a look. It runs in your browser.
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Hear it, then send it
Read aloud speaks the draft or a highlighted passage sentence by sentence, marking each one as it goes. When the draft is finished, export it as a PDF manuscript, a Word document, Markdown or plain text.
What it changes about the work
Any earlier state returns
Checkpoints are written automatically as the draft changes, you can name a version at any moment from the keyboard, and restoring an old one preserves the current text as a version of its own.
Pasted text arrives clean
Copying from a web page or another editor brings headings, paragraphs, lists, quotes and links through intact while colours, fonts, scripts and images are stripped, so the document keeps one consistent look.
What you get on each plan
- Free
- The editor is complete on the free plan: find and replace, statistics, goals, focus and typewriter modes, all four exports, and version history across your three projects. Read aloud uses your device's default voice.
- Pro
- Read aloud offers every speech voice installed on your device, grouped by language, with your choice remembered. The rest of the editor is identical, because drafting tools are not metered.
Long-form editor questions
How often is a version saved?
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A checkpoint is written when the document has changed and the previous edit was more than five minutes earlier. You can also name a version from the history panel, or press Command or Control plus S.
Can two old versions be compared?
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Yes. Tick any two entries in Version history and choose Compare selected. The comparison runs paragraph by paragraph, marking each one added, removed or unchanged, and reports the totals at the top of the page.
Which shortcuts are worth learning?
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Command or Control with F opens find and replace inside the draft, with S names a save point, and with Enter runs the AI operation you have chosen. Escape closes the find bar and the statistics panel.
How does replace work?
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The find bar counts matches and steps through them with Enter and Shift plus Enter. Replace changes the match you are on; All replaces every match at once and then reports how many it changed.
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