Thoughtful Writing Tools Add-in
Thoughtful helps you write more thoughtfully. Its AI encourages your own thinking.
Key Features
Transform your writing workflow with these smart tools:
Draft
- Help you craft your words on a blank page.
- Generate new sentences based on your context to expand your ideas.
- Predict questions inspired by your content to enhance clarity or address potential reader inquiries.
- Receive recommendations for the next word, phrase, or rhetorical move to maintain coherence.
- Easily adjust the focus area in your document to refine AI suggestions specific to your needs.
Revise
- Help you reshape those words to serve your readers.
- Generate a "view" based on your current paragraph.
- Get a summary of your current writing to check the clarity of your writing.
- Receive a "outside-of-the-box" questions to enhance clarity or address potential reader inquiries.
How to Use
- Install the Add-in from the Microsoft Store.
- Log in using Google, Microsoft, Facebook, or a new account.
- Start writing and generate suggestions by clicking one of the four buttons.
- Save favorite generations to use them in the future.
Privacy and Security
- Your document content is processed in real-time and not permanently stored.
- We collect only anonymized usage data to improve features and functionality.
- Participation in research is entirely optional and subject to strict consent guidelines.
- All usage data is encrypted and stored securely in compliance with industry standards.
Contact Us
Have questions, feedback, or need support? Visit our support page on the website for assistance. We're here to help!
About & Acknowledgment
This Add-in is developed by the Thoughtful AI Lab at Calvin University, led by Prof. Ken Arnold. It is free and open source under the MIT License.
This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under Grant No. 2246145 (CRII: HCC: Interactive Natural Language Technology for Supporting Writers in Structuring and Revising Documents). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.