https://github.com/yowainwright/awesome-writing-tools

A curated list of awesome tools for improving written communication
https://github.com/yowainwright/awesome-writing-tools

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A curated list of awesome tools for improving written communication

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/yowainwright/awesome-writing-tools
• Owner: yowainwright
• License: mit
• Created: 2017-08-29T22:34:10.000Z (about 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-04-24T07:43:33.000Z (7 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-20T21:50:39.414Z (6 months ago)
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• Stars: 145
• Watchers: 12
• Forks: 14
• Open Issues: 2
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE
  • Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

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README

        
Awesome Writing Tools 💕 



A curated list of awesome resources for improving written communication.


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- **[Alex.js](http://alexjs.com/):** Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing. Whether your own or someone else’s writing, Alex helps you find gender favoring, polarizing, race related, religion inconsiderate, or another unequal phrasing.

- **[Atomic AI / Atomic Reach](https://www.atomicreach.com/):** Real time, custom and predictive recommendations to create well written content with your audience in mind every time.

- **[The Chicago Manual of Style](http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html):** The Chicago Manual of Style Online is the venerable, time-tested guide to style, usage, and grammar in an accessible online format.

- **[Chisel Editor](https://egonschiele.github.io/chisel-docs/):**  An AI-powered tool for writing books and stories.

- **[Cliche Finder](http://cliche.theinfo.org/):** Finds and highlights cliches in your writing.

- **[Contributor Covenant](https://www.contributor-covenant.org/):** A code of conduct pledge, to respect and appreciate contributors and participants in open source projects.

- **[Danger](https://github.com/danger/danger):** Formalizes pull request ettiquette.

- **[Grammarly](https://www.grammarly.com/):** Grammarly makes sure everything you type is clear and mistake-free. It even checks for plagiarism.

- **[The Hemingway Editor](http://www.hemingwayapp.com/):** Hemingway helps you write with power and clarity by highlighting adverbs, passive voice, and dull, complicated words. Cut the dead weight from your writing.

- **[JigSaw](https://jigsaw.google.com/projects/):** A technology incubator focused on countering extremism and removing censorship online.

- **[LanguageCheck](https://github.com/JohannesBuchner/languagecheck):** Analyses scientific papers written in LaTeX, offline or on overleaf. Analysis reports with suggestions for improvements include a list of common mistakes/ambiguities, tense consistency, a vs. an, spell check and paragraph topic sentences.

- **[Markdownlint](https://github.com/markdownlint/markdownlint):** A tool to check markdown files and flag style issues.

  - **[Markdownlint-cli](https://github.com/igorshubovych/markdownlint-cli):** Provides a command line interface for MarkdownLint.

- **[Perspective API](https://www.perspectiveapi.com/#/):** An API that uses machine learning models to score the perceived impact of comments before they are sent. There is a demo nearer to the bottom of the page which can be used to try out the API.

- **[ProWritingAid](https://prowritingaid.com/):** ProWritingAid suggests edits for repetitiveness, vague wording, sentence length variation, over-dependence on adverbs, passive voice, over-complicated sentence constructions, spelling, and grammar.

- **[Readable.io](https://readable.io/):** Readable.io analyzes the readability of text and suggests ways to improve it.

- **[Taskade](https://taskade.com/):** Taskade is a real-time collaborative editor for creating bullet lists, outlines, and task lists.

- **[Weallbehave](https://github.com/wealljs/weallbehave):** Weallbehave is a command-line tool for automatically generating and updating the `CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md` for your projects.

- **[Write Good](https://github.com/btford/write-good):**  Write Good is a tool for improving language that can be run again code in a shell or within text editors via test editor plugins.

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This list was started by Jason Farmer along with Jeff Wainwright to share tools that might make writing a bit more friendly. Any insights or suggestions are very much appreciated.


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