Write Mode Basics

Open Write to draft, format text and revise passages. You can type your own text or review a first draft generated from a saved brief or outline.

Start from a brief

In New document, choose Write a brief and add your audience, facts, length and language. Choose a writing style, then Continue to writing. Select Preview first draft to generate a suggestion using AI credits. Review, refine or edit it before choosing Use this draft; your document stays empty until you accept it.

Title and appearance are optional. Open their section to name the document, choose its type or add a cover. On first use, the optional title appears below the writing style.

Already on a blank page? Choose Add a writing brief, save your instructions, then preview a draft. You can also Work on an outline when the piece needs more planning.

Choose your voice

Use the writing-style selector to choose a saved style or create one for this draft. Describe the tone, vocabulary, rhythm and restrictions you want. Use a writing sample can extract instructions from your own writing; review them before saving.

When creating a document, Default names the style that will be inherited from the workspace or your personal settings. No style means no custom style is selected. You can choose a different style for this document without changing those defaults.

A document font changes how the editor looks. A writing style guides AI suggestions.

Improve a passage

1. Click inside a paragraph, or select the text you want to change.
2. Choose Polish passage for clarity and flow, or Make concise to shorten it.
3. Review the suggestion before applying it. Your draft remains unchanged until you accept a change.
4. Refine the suggestion with instructions such as “Keep the first sentence exactly.”
5. Apply the result or dismiss it. Undo and Redo are available in the editor toolbar.

Explore All tools

Open All tools and search by a tool’s name or what you want to do. Short descriptions explain the result and the text each tool uses.

• Revise wording includes Polish passage, Make concise, Rewrite, spelling and grammar, and tone changes.
• Develop the piece includes openings, conclusions, continuation, elaboration, bridges and analogies.
• Summarize and organize includes passage summaries, whole-draft summaries and Bulletize.

Summarize passage uses your selected text, or the paragraph at your cursor. Summarize whole draft includes all the writing, even when you have a smaller selection. Review the preview, then choose Insert below to keep the original or Replace whole draft to replace it. Undo restores the previous writing.

On a narrow screen, All tools also gives you access to the opening and conclusion actions. Summaries use your selected writing style; review facts and qualifications before applying them.

Save and review

Watch the save indicator and use Retry if a save fails. Version history lets you inspect earlier saved content.

Use Review for structure and coaching, or Feedback for comments from another reader.

• AI suggestions and refinements
• Review your draft