Cotypist developer Daniel at Accelerated Thoughts GmbH sent beta users an email (“a sale for the people who got here first”) sent an email on May 20th letting early adoptersl know that Cotypist would be on sale starting today, with a generous intro offer for early adopters. I’ve been using it since learning of it on Bundlehunt, and while I’m loathe to add another subscription to support my software habit, the ineluctable sign that I was developing an affinity for the app revealed itself: I was using a Mac without Cotypist, and I was annoyed not see the autocompletion. Launchbar and Alfred users know what I’m talking about.
I like Jason Snell’s angle on AI apps: possibly fruit from a poisoned tree, but more germane to his point is that I don’t generally struggle with writing. Jason’s cultivating the sympathetic view that AI tools can help people for whom writing comes less naturally. (Do they have AI for dynamic problem solving and math? Cause I’d be up for those.) But like anyone, I find myself tired, or uninspired, or just plain stuck with what to say from time to time,and a friendly suggestion from an app that’s paying attention to my writing can be a helpful prompt.
So here’s to the next year of (co)typing. A bicycle, perhaps, for pedaling the cursor from left to right.