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Writing styles

ShyEditor's AI has a distinct voice that is optimized to provide a balanced and reliable baseline that works well across most scenarios. However, in some cases that might not match your intentions or preferences. This is where custom writing styles can come in handy. Writing styles allow you to adjust the style and tone of the AI to closely mimic your own style.

ShyEditor offers several built-in writing styles to get you started, all modeled after distinguished writers from the past.

There are two ways to use writing styles. You can either rewrite some existing text by choosing the "Rewrite as" option in the inline assistant menu, or you can pick a style directly when you request assistance:

Personal writing styles​

Pro feature

This feature is only available to ShyEditor Pro subscribers

The Personal Style is designed to mimic your own writing style as closely as possible. The more you write in ShyEditor, the better it will get to know you.

Apart from your Personal Style, you can also create your own custom styles. You can do that in the "Assistant" section of your profile. Custom styles are useful if you write in several distinct genres, or want to keep, for example, your business tone separate from your creative writing.

There are two ways to define a style:

  • Train it from your writing. Click "Add writing style", give your style a name, and pick which of your projects should be used to create this style. The AI analyzes the tone, vocabulary, sentence structure, literary devices, perspective, pacing, and distinctive voice features of your writing to build the style. Trained styles automatically refresh daily based on your most recently updated projects, so they evolve with your writing.
  • Describe it manually. Write a plain-language description of the style you want (up to 1024 characters) — for example, "short punchy sentences, dry humor, second person".

You can create multiple named styles. One of them is set as your primary default, and the others can be selected per-task from the style dropdown in the inline assistant. The selected style influences text rewrites, brainstorm outputs, continuations, free-form commands, and other AI-generated content.