Tangential to the article but I’m curious to see what the app looks like once it releases. I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how software for editing text

Tangential to the article but I’m curious to see what the app looks like once it releases. I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how software for editing text (not authoring) is woefully unexplored. When it comes to other mediums like video, software has maintained the film/edit division—one captures video with a camera then uses dedicated software to edit it. It remains a two-step process and the division between steps is reinforced by the design of supporting software. With writing, the opposite has happened. Software helped collapse the two-step divide between writing and editing. Text editors serve a dual purpose in that one can both produce the initial content and edit it thereafter all at once and seamlessly, in one tool, in one session. However, I remain convinced this is a bad way to do it and the two-step approach is the correct one. It’d be interesting to see what a tool dedicated only to the editing phase could look like (so, you can alter existing text but cannot use it to produce novel material).