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Shape the draft3 minute read

What it learns from your edits

Which corrections it notices, when they carry into later drafts, and how to correct what it learned.

When it learns

When a draft goes out, ReadyToEdit compares the text that went out with the text it wrote. Publishing its draft untouched teaches it nothing, because agreement is not a correction. What you changed is the signal.

One edit is evidence, not a rule. A correction starts to shape later drafts once you have made it across several of them.

What it notices

It learns from what it can see in your edits, not from a guess at your taste. These are the corrections it looks for, and the sentence it writes down for each.

Your correctionWhat it writes down
Taking the emoji out“You take the emoji out.”
Removing exclamation marks“You’d rather state a thing than exclaim it.”
Removing hashtags“You don’t post hashtags.”
Rewriting marketing language“You cut the marketing words out of what I write.”
Making it shorter“You write shorter than I do.”
Making it longer“You add more than I give you.”
Replacing the opening“My openings do not survive. You write your own.”
Replacing the ending“You end pieces differently from how I do.”
Moving parts around“You move things around — my order is not yours.”
Rewriting almost all of it“For pieces like this, my draft is a starting point rather than a draft.”

Correct what it learned

What it learned is listed on What I’ve learned, each statement with the edits behind it and a count of drafts for and against it. Only sometimes weakens a statement; Not true? retires it.

One list per workspace

What it learns applies across your whole workspace: all of its projects, clients and channels share one list. A rule only one client has, such as a word they never use, belongs in that project’s instructions in Style & context instead.

It never improves anyone else’s results, and your material is never used to train shared models.

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