Gorby
This writing app features a revamped writing screen with better themes plus text checks and features brought in from other parts of the app, and a new Electron-based desktop build integrating Harper.js for grammar checks. It aims to be useful for writing overall rather than only surfacing possible text improvements or a readability score.
What it addresses
Writing tools tend to focus on finding possible text improvements or readability scores rather than being genuinely useful for the act of writing.
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Gorby
This writing app features a revamped writing screen with better themes plus text checks and features brought in from other parts of the app, and a new Electron-based desktop build integrating Harper.js for grammar checks. It aims to be useful for writing overall rather than only surfacing possible text improvements or a readability score.
Problem: Writing tools tend to focus on finding possible text improvements or readability scores rather than being genuinely useful for the act of writing.
Posted by @rijavecb · Original comment ↗
“Lately, I've been redoing the entire writing screen in Gorby [1], trying to make it more useful and more pleasant to use. I've added better themes and brought some features and text checks from other parts of the app into the writing screen as well. I'm also working on integrating Harper.js for grammar checks. So far, I've only included it in the desktop app (yeah, it's built with Electron…), and it seems pretty decent.”