Start from your text

A second way into Create, for a text you already have: a mail, a colleague's draft, a page from your website. You bring it in, it is kept as a draft in a project, and from there you check it against your word rules, rewrite it in your house voice, or turn it into a blog post, document, web page, email, slides or social post.

Most texts are not written in Gyrium. This holds them to the same rules as everything Gyrium writes: the same words to avoid, the same approved terms, the same voice, adjusted for the reader you choose. And it keeps the text and its rewrite in the project, so nothing lives only in someone's clipboard.

The first time you act on a text, Gyrium keeps it as a draft document in the project you chose. That costs nothing and no AI reads it. A check compares it word by word with your word rules, for free. A rewrite is done by Gyrium's own writer with your brand voice, Writing rules and terms, for the persona you pick, and keeps the meaning and every fact of the text. It is saved as a second draft beside the original, which is never changed. Two checks come with it, both free: what still breaks a word rule, and any figure or name in the rewrite that was not in your text. Turning a text into a piece opens that piece's brief with your text as its source; it is priced as that piece.

1. Open Create and choose the Start from your text tab.
2. Choose the Project the text belongs to, the Language it is in, and, if you like, a Persona to write it for.
3. Bring the text: Paste it, choose A file (a Word, text or Markdown file), give the address of A web page and press Read the page, or pick A document in this project.
4. To check it, press Check. What breaks a word rule is marked, with the rule beside it. Edit the text takes you back to the text.
5. To rewrite it, press Rewrite. The card shows what it costs. Under For a rewrite, the text is, Keep its shape keeps its paragraphs and headings; choose a blog post, social post, email or section of a proposal if that is what it is.
6. Read the rewrite beside your text. Then Copy text, Open the rewrite to edit it as a document, Rewrite again, or Turn it into a blog post.
7. To make a new piece from the text, pick one under Turn into: Blog post, Document, Web page, Email, Slides or Social post. Its brief opens with your text already added as the source. For a document, web page, email or slides, choose the blueprint first. A social post opens in the Socials brief, where a few words say what to make of the text; Leave the text out there drops it.

- Rules written as sentences (Writing rules: Do, Don't) are followed by the rewrite, but the free check does not check them.

- The added-facts line sees figures written in digits and names with a capital; a figure written as a word is not seen.