For important texts in German, I find WSKI (Wolf-Schneider-KI) very helpful. Wolf Schneider has written many books about good texts in German for the public, and has for decades taught journalists in the German-speaking part of Europe. Reporterfabrik has created an editing tool based on Schneider's legacy with his guidelines and rules: https://reporterfabrik.org/wski-editor/
Hi Jeremy - greatest post, as always! It inspires a topic suggestion. I notice that a lot of writing/grammar assistants will change the formatting of text I copy/paste. The most annoying is when they replace manual paragraph breaks with auto breaks, which requires me to paste the text from the AI without any formatting and then add all my formatting again.
I know a lot of people just use auto-formatting, but it creates too many problems for my workflow. The service I've been using as a paid user for four years (Grammarly) suddenly changed to auto-formatting, which means I need to find a new service. But I've looked at services like Jasper and Quill, and they both also apply auto-formatting.
It makes me wonder if the people designing these tools have any idea what professional writing might require.
So, as a future topic suggestion, AI writing agents that don't reformat copy? Just a suggestion. Keep up the good work!
Thanks, Janet, I had a look and you are correct! Alas, DeepL won't accept credit cards from my country. They have a curiously limited list of countries they accept.
In general, I limit my editing tools to Grammarly and CoPilot. I've tried Pro Writing Aid in the past and found that I don't like its suggestions too often.
This is very helpful, thank you. I have tried several ai apps and didn’t get the results I was expecting. I’ll give it another try. I am only using Perplexity AI in the free version which is very helpful to find contextual references. Have a good day.
I'm in love with my bad Grammer, and the bad Grammer in other writers that personafies them; but I certainly feel you on the chores of editing. I read a quote from a successful author: "No matter how many eyes you have on it, you'll still have mistakes."
DeepL is a fantastic tool for translation, and it's trustworthy. I love the option of proper language, lingo (street) language, or setting for a mix.
" I highly recommend PI, a conversational AI tool created by California-based Inflection AI. PI can discuss a wide variety of topics, and it has an ability to offer editing suggestions. I use PI frequently when I want to confirm my communications are sufficiently detailed and have a positive tone. Example: I sent a draft of this comment to PI prior to submittal on Substack. PI offered a spelling correction. Tip: It is best to send PI one paragraph per response. I also need to note that PI is free for anyone to use, meaning there is no subscription cost for PI usage at the time my comment is submitted. Check out PI today! https://pi.ai/talk
For important texts in German, I find WSKI (Wolf-Schneider-KI) very helpful. Wolf Schneider has written many books about good texts in German for the public, and has for decades taught journalists in the German-speaking part of Europe. Reporterfabrik has created an editing tool based on Schneider's legacy with his guidelines and rules: https://reporterfabrik.org/wski-editor/
For my regular texts, I rely on LanguageTool https://languagetool.org/?force_language=1 for my texts in different languages. Very helpful.
Hi Jeremy - greatest post, as always! It inspires a topic suggestion. I notice that a lot of writing/grammar assistants will change the formatting of text I copy/paste. The most annoying is when they replace manual paragraph breaks with auto breaks, which requires me to paste the text from the AI without any formatting and then add all my formatting again.
I know a lot of people just use auto-formatting, but it creates too many problems for my workflow. The service I've been using as a paid user for four years (Grammarly) suddenly changed to auto-formatting, which means I need to find a new service. But I've looked at services like Jasper and Quill, and they both also apply auto-formatting.
It makes me wonder if the people designing these tools have any idea what professional writing might require.
So, as a future topic suggestion, AI writing agents that don't reformat copy? Just a suggestion. Keep up the good work!
Thanks, James, for the comment. I'll keep my eye out for AI writing agents that preserve formatting. It's an interesting point. Thanks.
I’m pretty sure that Deepl doesn’t do that (at least it’s never happened to me, and I use Deepl a lot)
Thanks, Janet, I had a look and you are correct! Alas, DeepL won't accept credit cards from my country. They have a curiously limited list of countries they accept.
How strange! Which country are you in?
Often times I've found myself coming back to your posts when I needed something and remember you've posted about it.
This is going to be helpful at some future time (I know 😊).
Thank you.
I like Grammarly and Hemmingwayapp
In general, I limit my editing tools to Grammarly and CoPilot. I've tried Pro Writing Aid in the past and found that I don't like its suggestions too often.
This is very helpful, thank you. I have tried several ai apps and didn’t get the results I was expecting. I’ll give it another try. I am only using Perplexity AI in the free version which is very helpful to find contextual references. Have a good day.
Thanks. This overview of aids is helpful.
Thank you Jeremy, for another great post. I'd be curious to have your impressions of EditGPT vs. the apps you have so kindly reviewed.
I'm in love with my bad Grammer, and the bad Grammer in other writers that personafies them; but I certainly feel you on the chores of editing. I read a quote from a successful author: "No matter how many eyes you have on it, you'll still have mistakes."
DeepL is a fantastic tool for translation, and it's trustworthy. I love the option of proper language, lingo (street) language, or setting for a mix.
Great post. 🙂
" I highly recommend PI, a conversational AI tool created by California-based Inflection AI. PI can discuss a wide variety of topics, and it has an ability to offer editing suggestions. I use PI frequently when I want to confirm my communications are sufficiently detailed and have a positive tone. Example: I sent a draft of this comment to PI prior to submittal on Substack. PI offered a spelling correction. Tip: It is best to send PI one paragraph per response. I also need to note that PI is free for anyone to use, meaning there is no subscription cost for PI usage at the time my comment is submitted. Check out PI today! https://pi.ai/talk
How do these tools stack up to Grammarly?