Receiving a document or an email that is full of typos sucks, right? It feels like the sender could have taken a second to proofread it, or at least run it through ChatGPT.
But honestly, copying and pasting text into AI tools disrupts your flow. There should be a way to fix grammar and spelling mistakes immediately, right where you are typing, without leaving the window.
So, I spent some time building TypoSnap.
It’s a simple tool:
- Write your draft (in an email, Word doc, anywhere on Windows).
- Highlight the text.
- Press a keyboard shortcut.
- Watch the AI fix your grammar and spelling.
It also suggests synonyms if you want to sound a bit more professional.
And specifically for users of a subreddit like this, I included meme-mode. You can highlight somebody else's text, press the shortcut and receive their corrected text along with "You've been grammar-nazied by TypoSnap — OOOH SNAP! 💥"
Hope you guys enjoy this!
The phrase grammar nazi is a commonly understood one but I don’t understand why would you want your product associated with the worst of the worst.
“you’ve been grammar nazied by Typosnap OH SNAP 💥”
To use this in your products and corporate communications looks it was not thought through well, or thought about at all. Nazied is a horrible language construction for an app about helping your written communication!
Incidentally, a person proofreading this - which you’ve posted to many subs, would have likely caught this issue before you had shared it.
Now seriously, perhaps this a troll post or a way of attempting to normalise more use of the word in everyday language.
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"You've been grammar-nazied" is a figure of speech. Not a way to normalise such a horrible group of people in any way...
It might not be your intent but offence can be taken even without the intention of the author and this is a hot button issue right now. I’d suggest going back to the drawing board to design any references to nazis firmly out of your product. As I said, it does highlight the fundamental flaw with using a machine to proofread. It doesn’t notice glaring issues as effectively as a person should.