Draftsmith Quickstart Guide

If this is your first time using Draftsmith, you may be prompted to log in to your Draftsmith account.

You can use the account details you created during purchase.

If you are using Draftsmith for the first time, you will see the Getting Started Guide. You must be in a document with text to proceed, and starting at a paragraph with 2 or more sentences.  

You can replay this any time you would like in future. 

You will now see 3 suggesters along the top, the default for your chosen activity. The active suggester will be highlighted with a purple outline. 

After you choose an activity, Draftsmith will automatically select a paragraph from your document to check it and make a suggestion. 

If Draftsmith hasn’t selected the paragraph you want it to check, you can place your cusor at the start of a paragraph you would like to check. You cannot hightlight text manually for Draftsmith to check. 

You can also use the Skip button below to skip through to different paragraphs of your text. 

Draftsmith will automatically give you a suggestion as soon as you’ve selected your text.  

It will split the paragraph out in to sentences, so you can edit each sentence individually. 

You can get a new suggestion by clicking the Green Bar to the right.  

You can switch back to your original text by clicking the Purple Bar to the left. 

To use the suggestion, leave it as it is, and when you click Accept the suggestion will be added. The state that any sentence is in when you click Accept will be what is updated into the document. 

Draftsmith provides three Suggesters based on the activity you have selected. For example, if you choose the Empathy Tuner, the Suggesters you’ll see are More Empathetic, More Friendly, and Simplify.

To get more Suggesters, click on the downward arrows. The Suggesters fall under the categories Audience, Style, Line Edit, Multilingual, and Funny.

To compare your original text with Draftsmith’s suggested text, click on the Purple Bar to switch back to the original. 

Or, if you’d like Draftsmith to highlight the changes it’s made to your text, click the A-pencil icon to show tracked changes in the Decision Box. 

If you ever want to undo a change made with Draftsmith, you don’t need to look for an Undo button. Simply use the one in Word.