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Shosho - An editor to remove the clutter from your writing.

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Shosho is a writing, editing and collaboration tool that focuses on cutting the clutter from your writing. It allows you to share your stories with others, improve your writing by removing fillers, cliches, adverbs, and simplifying complex words.

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This looks great! A few ideas: 1) A "View" mode would be awesome, alongside the "Edit" and "Write" modes 2) It would be awesome to be able to disregard suggestions (i.e. if a certain one doesn't match your writing style or the tone of the piece)
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thank you Ben! We're already working on point 2. And what do you mean by "View" mode? Something like a present mode? If you could share more details, that would help
yes, something like a present mode or the view mode on Google Docs. Essentially, a mode with editing + writing disabled (so no chance of accidental edits). Also btw you can't click and drag on the scrollbar starting at about halfway down the page, looks like the editing boxes are overlapping it.
Maker
Got it, thank you! We already have something similar on our roadmap
I've been looking for something like this for some time now. I am a heavy Grammarly users but I needed something more specific and I think this solves my pain!
Maker
Thank you Cristina! Much appreciated :) Soon we will add grammar and spellchecking too. Once we are done with Beta, grammar should come And many more collaboration features :P
What did you use for your WYSIWG editor? Love it!
Maker
Thank you! We used Draft.js
Congratulations on the launch! The app looks impressive. Looking forward to the launch of new features.
Maker
Thank you! :)
Great tool been testing it out. I have a few suggestions: 1) I need to be able to save the document/article once loaded on the app, so I don't loose the editing. I lost the first attempt since I left the app and came back to it, the article had disappeared and I had to start again. 2) the suggestions of editing hover over the text, so I cannot rewrite it. Very awkward to edit, I had to start writing before the highlighted text and then rewrite it. Still testing it out and will come back with other suggestions. Where is the best place to send the feedback? Here or selecting the "feedback" button on the app. It looks like that is used for support rather than giving feedback.
Maker
hey Jane! Thank you for your feedback. Could you please send it to me directly on 1) It's weird that your story disappeared. All stories autosave after 3 seconds. Could you please send me the text you had there and more details on what exactly happened? We will take a look at it. Still in Beta, bugs like this may appear :P sorry for the inconvenience 2) This is a bit harder for us to balance because that's the point of the Edit Mode. You either edit with our suggestions or highlight the text yourself and replace it. But I will add it to the list and see if we can find a solution for that The "feedback" button is for both :)
Cheers, I replied via email to you, and many thanks for a quick response back.
Looks cool. Signed up already, let's see how it plays out. I'm currently using INK, it's great for SEO but doesn't help you with making your writing richer.
Maker
thank you Henry! We just launched, so we will keep improving the tool with more focused features. If you will have any feedback/issues, send it to me at eugen(at)shosho.co
It's a nice concept, to speak less and with more substance. However, the return to simpler words doesn't make the speaking also poorer?
Maker
Depends :) I hate the gibberish when I read something like "In my opinion I beleive that", "It's very important to remember that", "With all due respect". All of this nonsense kills a brain cell every time I read one. So I decided to make something that will remove them The app is not something you should follow religiously. Look at it as guidance, and decide by yourself what's important. In writing you don't need the empty words (except if you write dialogue), but when you speak, you can use them. Otherwise you will sound like a robot
Recommend it to try. Cool idea and mix of Grammarly and HemingwayApp
Maker
Thank you Alex! Funny that we don't have anything from Grammarly yet :P we will add some grammar stuff later
Congratulation with the launch! The only question : why it is called Shosho?
Maker
thank you! I thought it sounds much better than "writing app" :P Shosho sounds catchy
Similar to Grammarly? If so, how different? Thanks
Maker
Hi Daniel, sorry but this was already answered 3 times in the comments. See the upper ones
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