A Writing Tool That Leaves the Writing to Me

As my AI policy points out, I do revise my posts with AI, but until now, I’ve resorted to post-draft LLM passes that take a bunch of SKILL.md files and either fix outright typos and misspellings or add editorial blockquotes to my drafts. The entire process feels needlessly technical in the sense that doing it inside vim or VS Code (typically as I bring stuff together for a final draft) detracts–or, rather, distracts me–from the writing experience too much, and sometimes automated replacements slip through. I’ve been trying to do the techie thing and “shift left” all the stuff involved with revisions so that the final pass is mostly about auto-linking, diagrams, captions and the like. But I am fundamentally tired of trying to use Obsidian as an editor, Dinkus (my current favourite on my laptop) doesn’t have an official iPad port, and iA Writer plain doesn’t work the way it should regarding accessing external folders on an iPad either, so I’ve actually been creating yet another Markdown…