Clarity
Your words, made clear — not reworded
What it makes
clarity
Communication
Real output
Pulling the ask out of a ramble
A filler-heavy thought where the real request is buried.
What you said
So um I was thinking like you know how we have the uh the thing where you can um like see the transcript right and it shows up and you know it's like it works fine but I was wondering if maybe we could like I don't know make it so that uh you know when you're looking at it it like um shows the timestamps? Maybe? I think that could be useful or whatever.
What you got
I was thinking — you know the transcript view? It works fine, but I was wondering if we could make it show timestamps. I think that could be useful.
Why it’s better
The buried request — add timestamps to the transcript view — comes through clearly, but the tentative framing (“I was wondering,” “I think that could be useful”) is preserved exactly. Nothing is invented, and the speaker’s own “it works fine” note stays in.
A spoken update, made readable
A quick verbal status update spanning a few topics.
What you said
So um quick update on where things are. The auth migration is done, Sarah merged it yesterday, all tests passing. The uh the admin dashboard is like 80 percent there, I still need to wire up the snapshot restore button but the UI is all built out. Oh and Jake found a bug with the live recording on Safari, something about the websocket dropping after like 30 seconds? I told him to file an issue. And then for next week I think we should prioritize the hat management UI because people keep asking about it in the Discord.
What you got
Quick update on where things are.
The auth migration is done — Sarah merged it yesterday, all tests passing. The admin dashboard is about 80% there; I still need to wire up the snapshot restore button, but the UI is all built out.
Jake found a bug with live recording on Safari — something about the WebSocket dropping after about 30 seconds. I told him to file an issue.
For next week, I think we should prioritize the hat management UI because people keep asking about it in the Discord.
Why it’s better
Filler and false starts are gone and each topic gets its own paragraph, but every word is the speaker’s — “found,” “because,” and the casual register are untouched. It reads like the speaker on a good day, not like someone else rewrote it.
What comes back
- A message that’s already clear comes back barely touched — Clarity makes minimal edits and doesn’t edit for the sake of editing.
- When the situation is a reply (a Slack message, an email thread), it shapes a minimally sendable reply in your voice — without inventing greetings or sign-offs.
- It matches your energy: a flat statement stays flat — no added exclamation marks or enthusiasm — and a casual message stays casual.
- It preserves your statements, including the brief ones — agreements like “yeah, that works” and quick asides are kept, not trimmed away as filler.
What you can count on
- Keeps your exact words — “watch it” stays “watch it,” not “keep an eye on it”
- Matches your tone exactly — a flat “thanks for sending it” won’t gain an exclamation mark
- Never invents — adds no fact, name, or decision you didn’t say, and flags real ambiguity instead of guessing
Install Clarity and try it on your own voice.
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The everyday default — turns rough, rambling speech into clear, unambiguous writing.
Clarity is the everyday default. It takes the mess of how you actually talk — filler, false starts, tangled sentences, sound-alike transcription errors, vague “the thing” references — and makes sure a reader gets exactly what you meant. What it does not do is rewrite you. It keeps your words, your tone, and your level of conviction, so the result reads like you on a good day, not like someone else rephrased it. Reach for it when you just want your message to land cleanly without sounding like a different person wrote it — and trust that it never adds a fact, name, or decision you didn’t actually say.
Best for
- Cleaning up a dictated message so it reads clearly without sounding rewritten
- Replying to a Slack message or email thread in your own voice, ready to send
- Turning a rambling thought into a clear, unambiguous note
- Any moment you want “what I meant,” not “what an editor would say”
Not for
- Restructuring a brain-dump into sections, summaries, or action items (reach for Distill or Meeting Notes)
- Making a message warmer, more formal, or more persuasive — Clarity preserves your tone, it doesn’t shift it (reach for Casual Convo or Work Email)
- Drafting something from scratch — Clarity clarifies what you said, it doesn’t write what you didn’t
Using it
How it works
- Speak naturally — Clarity expects spoken-language mess: filler, false starts, sound-alike errors, and run-on thoughts.
- It removes the noise and sharpens meaning: vague references get resolved to the actual thing, tangled sentences get split, and topic shifts get paragraph breaks.
- It keeps your words — clear words you used aren’t swapped for fancier synonyms, and your exact phrasing and conviction are preserved.
- It never adds — if a fact, name, or decision wasn’t in what you said, it stays out, and genuine ambiguities are flagged rather than guessed.
Try saying
- Tell Sarah I’ll be about 10 minutes late to the standup, something came up with the deploy and I need to watch it
- so um I was thinking like you know the thing where you see the transcript, it works fine but maybe we could like show the timestamps? I think that could be useful or whatever
- yeah that works tell her after three is fine and thanks for sending it
Tips
- Just talk — you don’t need to speak in clean sentences. Clarity is built for the mess of real speech.
- Use the Context box for replies — say it’s a reply to a Slack message or an email thread, and Clarity will shape a sendable reply and resolve who “her” or “it” refers to.
- If you’re genuinely unsure about something, say so — Clarity keeps real uncertainty (“I think,” “maybe”) instead of hardening it into a decision.