I’m trying to understand how other people handle editing and rewrites without killing their focus.

My pattern for years has been something like:

  - write a rough sentence or paragraph
  - notice it feels clumsy or too formal
  - copy it into an AI tool or Grammarly
  - get a better version
  - paste it back, reformat
  - repeat many times

It works, but it constantly breaks my flow. I spend a lot of time context-switching instead of just fixing the text and moving on.

Because of that, I’ve been experimenting with a very narrow tool (Rephrazo) that keeps everything inline:

  - highlight text
  - press a hotkey
  - get an AI paraphrase in a small popup
  - insert it back with one click

No new tab, no big chat window, no prompts. Just “this sentence feels off - quick rewrite - continue”.

A few questions for HN:

  1. How do you currently edit your own writing (emails, docs, landing pages, internal docs, etc.)?

     - Mostly manual?
     - Copy-paste into ChatGPT/Grammarly?
     - Built-in tools in your editor?

  2. Does context-switching (new tab, new app, separate window) bother you, or is it a non-issue in practice?

  3. If you’ve tried inline tools before (for code or writing), what made you:

     - keep using them long-term, or
     - abandon them after a few days?

  4. What would make an inline “rewrite this” helper actually useful for you, rather than yet another distraction?

If it’s helpful for context, the early version of what I’m testing is here:

  - https://rephrazo-ai.app/

But feel free to ignore the link and just describe your own workflow. Honest “this isn’t a real problem for me” answers are just as useful as “I’d use this every day”.