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Copyedit Modes

Where Focus and Typewriter modes are designed to help with writing, the copyedit features help with editing and tweaking your work. They let you highlight the different parts of speech in your text, each in its own colour.

The editor with copyedit highlighting on, colouring different parts of speech

Part of speech Colour Why you might want it
Nouns Red Identify the subjects and objects in your text
Verbs Blue Spot action words and check tense patterns
Adjectives Brown Review how much descriptive language you use
Adverbs Pink Catch potentially unnecessary modifiers
Conjunctions Green See how your sentences are connected

You can enable and disable these individually or all together via the command palette.