Slips as you writeCatch the typos while you’re still drafting.

What counts as a slip

The things that are just wrong, not a matter of style:

• doubled words (“the the”)
• paragraphs pasted twice
• unfinished sentences (no full stop, a quotation mark never closed)
• spacing slips
• and with Pro, homophones and name spelling slips (“Rena” among the “Reina”s)

Slips as you write, in today’s words only

It checks what you’ve written or changed today, wherever it is in the document, every few seconds as you write. Or, with the Since last time menu, since the start of the last day you worked on it. The menu shows once there is such a day, and names it: “Since yesterday”.

How it knows what’s today’s: Falcontext keeps a short code for each paragraph on your device, never its words. A paragraph that’s new or changed since the day’s first reading is today’s. A document that started the day empty is all today’s. With Drive sync on, it knows what you changed on another computer too.

So you’re not looking at last month’s chapter while you write this one.

Each check is a row: a green dot with “none”, or an orange one with the slips it found most, each with a count. Click one to see it in your text. Above the rows, a line sums up today: how many paragraphs you wrote or changed, in which scenes, and how many words are revised, removed and new.

Slips as you write, after a sprint or your goal

When a sprint ends, the result tells you the slips in what you just wrote, or that there are none. Reach your daily goal, and the message adds a quick look at today’s slips, with Show the slips.

Why not the style checks too?

Because drafting and editing are different jobs. Adverbs and filter words can wait. The prose checks are on the Edit tab when you’re ready.

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