visual language

The three frontiers of text editors: 1) visualizing patterns, 2) analyzing composition and giving feedback, 3) recalling notes based on your prose. I’m not interested in using AI to generate text. What’s possible assuming the writer is always crafting their own prose?

The “2D plane” is the plane for making sense of 1D linear arts (writing) or 3D spatial arts (architecture). It’s a middle ground where you can diagram to see the relationships between things. In the case of 1D>2D, you are “upshifting” to see patterns that aren’t visible. In the case of 3D>2D, you are “downshifting” to reduce complexity into

How could “linting” from software development—which is about using syntax to analyze how code will run—apply to prose writers? What kind of syntax could help us see patterns in our prose?

Imagine a syllable visualizer? It could use custom underlines to show the syllables within a word. Each line could have a little ball, with a line going down. Then