The original note, as written at the time
AI PHRASE PROMPTER. An AI tool that provides a storage option for key phrases used in sentences of someone’s workflow. It can then recommend these in the future when the user is creating another document.
Ongoing development
An AI tool that keeps a store of the key phrases a person uses in their own work, and offers them back the next time they are writing something similar.
It sounds like autocomplete and it is not. Autocomplete predicts what any competent writer would say next. This is narrower and much more useful: it remembers what YOU said, in the particular phrasing you said it, and gives it back.
Every professional has a private vocabulary that takes years to build. The way they open a letter of introduction. The sentence they use to decline without giving offence. The construction that says this is provisional without saying it is weak. Most people never write these down, so they reinvent them badly under deadline, and the result reads like a different person every time.
A store of your own phrases is a store of your own consistency. It is also, quietly, a defence: the phrases that took longest to get right are the ones most easily lost when somebody is tired.
The design matters more than the model. It has to be offered and not applied — a phrase the machine inserts is a phrase you did not choose, and the value collapses the moment you stop choosing. It should show you three you have used before and let you take one, ignore all three, or edit one into something new and store that.
And it should be yours. Not a profile on a server. A file, in your own folder, that you can read, back up, and carry between tools — because the entire asset here is the accumulated judgement of a person, and an asset like that should not live somewhere you cannot take it.