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“I like the cut of your jib” — the old way of saying you can recognise someone by their style from a distance. Every AI writing tool will match a voice if you describe it well enough; the describing is the hard part. This is mostly taps and sliders, with a few sentences to rewrite. At the end it builds a VOICE.md you hand to Claude, ChatGPT, or a custom style.

Nothing leaves your browser. Answers autosave locally. The rewrite cards and the samples at the end carry the most weight — the rest is quick.

01 The tells

What a bad imitation gets wrong. A model can follow a "never do this" far more reliably than it can guess one, so this section does the most work.

Tap anything you would never write.

Rewrite this the way you’d actually say it.

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And this one.

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One more — this is over-hedged. Fix it.

It could perhaps be argued that this might, in certain situations, represent a potential issue worth considering.
02 Emphasis & tone

How you land a point, push back, or show you care.

How do you emphasise a point?

When you’re not sure, you write…

Pushing back on someone, you’d say…

Swearing in writing

never freely, it’s how I talk

Humour shows up as…

03 Rhythm & structure

The shape of the writing on the page.

Your sentences run…

short and clipped long and winding

Sentence variety

Your paragraphs are…

one or two lines big blocks

You reach for…

You open a piece with…

You end with…

Rewrite this opener as you’d actually start.

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04 Vocabulary & register

Word choice, formality, and the tics a friend would recognise.

Default register

texting a friend a legal document

Where do you get more formal than that?

Technical jargon

Analogies and metaphors

never, just say it constantly

Contractions (isn’t, we’ll)

Person

05 By channel

One core voice, with a few adjustments.

e.g. “Slack: no capitals, no full stops. Client email: warmer, more hedged.”

06 In your own words

A few more to rewrite — different situations this time. Reacting to a canned line is the same signal as pasting your own writing, without needing any to hand.

A colleague sends “can you take a look at this when you get a chance?” with a link. You reply…

Sure thing! I’d be happy to take a look. I’ll circle back to you with my thoughts shortly. 😊

Turning down a request by email — say no, keep the door open.

Thank you so much for thinking of me! Unfortunately, I don’t have the bandwidth to take this on right now, but I’d love to revisit it down the line.

Explaining something technical to a smart non-expert.

Essentially, a reverse proxy acts as an intermediary that sits in front of your servers and handles incoming requests on their behalf.

Skip it otherwise — the rewrites above cover the same ground. Label them DRAFT: and MINE:

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