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title: "Write Better: a private Mac writing assistant | Yogoro Labs"
description: "A private writing assistant I built for my own work. It fixes, clarifies, and shortens English in any app on the Mac, or turns a rough note into a message."
url: https://yogoro.me/write-better
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# Labs. Write Better

## A private writing assistant

Write Better fixes the grammar, makes the text clearer or shorter, or turns a rough note into a message. The language model runs on the Mac itself: no cloud, no account, no subscription.

It’s a custom product, and it isn’t available to download.

Want to try it? Email [max@yogoro.me](mailto:max@yogoro.me?subject=Write%20Better).

## Screenshots

- Screenshot: If it runs long, cut it. Shorten on a product requirement, in 3.9 seconds: “must to send” loses “to”, “In case of the payment is refused” becomes “If a payment is refused”, and the last sentence ends “within 5 seconds of the payment gateway confirmation”.
- Screenshot: A clear message, in English. Write turned a note in Portuguese into two messages in English, Short and Friendly. Friendly is picked and copied, ready to replace the note.
- Screenshot: Let me know if anything looks off. Clarify over a weekly update in Team notes, in 3.3 seconds: the selected paragraph stays in the document, and the panel below it marks every change. “Shipped the new onboarding flow to 10% of users” becomes “I’ve shipped…”, and “Ping me if you see anything weird” becomes “Please let me know if you notice anything unusual”.
  - Your text, where it is: Select it in any app. Here, a paragraph in a team’s notes.
  - One shortcut per action: Grammar, Clarify, Shorten and Write, each on its own key.
  - Every change, marked: Word by word, so you see what moved before anything is replaced.
  - Nothing changes until you say so: Replace puts the new text in place of yours.

## How it works

1. 01 Select text in any app

    Email, documents, chat, Figma, the browser. A tap on the right Option key opens the panel over the app.

2. 02 Pick what to do

    Grammar, Clarify or Shorten, each with its own shortcut. Or a typed instruction, like “friendlier” or “bottom line first”.

3. 03 Check each change, then replace

    Removed words are struck through and new ones underlined. The original text stays as it is until Replace.

4. 04 Learn along the way

    A short tip names the change most worth learning. Words Portuguese speakers often misuse, like “pretend” or “eventually”, come with what they mean in English.

### Or start from a rough note

Write turns a quick note into a message, in two versions: short and friendly.

The note can be in Portuguese; the message comes out in English.

## Private by design

- Runs locally

    An open language model runs on the Mac itself. After a one-time download, it works offline.

- No cloud, no account, no tracking

    Write Better makes no external calls, so I can use it on confidential work too.

## It gets better with use

- Keeps a history and reviews it constantly

    Each result is saved with what I did next: replaced, copied, retried or cancelled. Once a month, it summarizes that history, proposes changes with the evidence behind them, and looks for newer open models that are better for the job.

- Real texts become tests

    When enough new texts pile up, the system anonymizes them and asks me whether they should be included in the analysis for future improvements.

- I keep control over changes

    The prompts and the model only change after I approve a change and it passes quality tests.

## Questions? Get in touch: [max@yogoro.me](mailto:max@yogoro.me)