🆕🎉Release notes for the Windows version (v7.1):
v7.1 Hotfix Additions:
- Fixed an issue with the OpenAI Provider, and improved & optimised the entire AI Provider architecture.
- Improved the thinking text animation.
- Fixed the default icon arrangement to be the same as v6.
v7 Additions:
1. Customizable buttons! You can now add, edit, remove, and rearrange the buttons.
Huge thanks to @momokrono for building the entire back-end for this 💛! I added the GUI (with draggable buttons, reset to default functionality...).
2. Sleeker pop-up UI
3. A native Ollama AI Provider (using the Ollama API), for easier Ollama setup & custom model-in-memory-time options — entirely thanks to @momokrono!
4. New Gemini model options, with better explanations
5. A new Pause & Resume option to stop Writing Tools from reading your hotkey if necessary. Again, @momokrono so awesomely implemented this :D
5. Other Improvements:
- UX improvements to the Summary etc. pop-up window (optimized initial height)
- Friendlier error message on hitting Gemini rate-limits
- Added graceful quitting when running through the terminal [credit: @momokrono]
I want to thank @momokrono once again for all his help and support—not only in contributing code, but also for extensively helping manage GitHub issues. Thank you, truly—I'll never forget your kind contributions. 💛
Upcoming features:
- Localization (multi-language UI) — @momokrono has built the entire framework for this, and my gratitude is unbounded — this would help so many. It'll be ready by the next release!
- Hotkeys for specific options.
- Support to remove reasoning token markers if needed (PS: DeepSeek R1 & Gemini 2.0 Thinking already work!).
- (researching) Tracked changes/diff check (to compare proofread text with the original).
- Checking that the active window is the same before pasting.
- More feature suggestions on GitHub Issues, and potentially future ones.
- And of course, bug fixes and improvements overall :]
⬆️ Update Instructions:
You can keep using your old config.json to preserve your set-up! Simply bring it over into the new Writing Tools v7.1 folder you'll download below.
🐞 Known Issues
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On some devices, Writing Tools may not work correctly with the default hotkey.
To fix it, simply change the hotkey to ctrl+` or ctrl+j and restart Writing Tools.
PS: If a hotkey is already in use by a program or background process, Writing Tools may not be able to intercept it. The above hotkeys are usually unused. -
The initial launch of the
Writing Tools.exemight take unusually long — this seems to be because AV software extensively scans this new executable before letting it run. Once it launches into the background in RAM, it works instantly as usual.
Release notes for the native macOS version by @Aryamirsepasi (v2):
- New Feature: Image Processing via Gemini (Thanks to @Joaov41. GitHub: https://github.com/Joaov41)
- Added direct Mistral support
- Added Provider selection in the Onboarding Window
- The installer now has a shortcut to the Applications folder
Note: macOS 14 or later is required to run Writing Tools (due to accessibility API requirements).
Upcoming features:
- Text streaming in the Response Window
- Localisation of the buttons for some languages
- Ability to close the Popup Window via ESC Key
- Ability to work with an embedded local LLM without any configuration
