I have been thinking of creating a tool that would help me with writing content. I write a blog (https://stribny.name/blog/) and now also a book (https://efficientdeveloper.com/) and I am thinking about ways to make my writing better.
I am trying to see if there is a space for a text analysis / text aid tool for writing better texts.
There are many ideas that could be incorporated, some easy and some very hard to implement, but now I am mostly curious about the use case/business side of things.
To demonstrate this, I have created a little demo with following simple features (the demo is really limited and slow now):
You can see it/try it out at https://textwok.com.
I have seen many similar tools online, for instance there are plenty of tools for analyzing text that output tons of statistical data. The first difference of this tool would be to show you only the most important things and also provide suggestions based on them. So instead of being overwhelmed by data, there would be some actionable advice.
My questions are:
I am thankful for any comment or insight. Thanks!
Hello.
It's interesting.
For example, suggesting synonyms seems helpful for non-native English speakers like me, who tends to use many times (and only knows) same words.
### textlint
https://textlint.github.io/
I used this when I wrote a book.
I managed my text on Git and applied checks by this tool by CI.
### Grammarly
I use this for English writings.
I think it has different concept from yours though, it includes something similar like long sentence detection.
The synonym suggestion is something I really wanted for myself. It is not perfect now, but I think the feature itself can be very helpful, especially if we don't have to check each word manually.
I didn't know about Textlint, looks cool. Thanks for the link!
Grammarly is heavily advertised (at least to me on Youtube), so I think most people know it.
Again, thanks for the comment!