Better Docs

Copy from anywhere. Land it in your doc.

Better Docs is a Chrome extension for Google Docs. Plant helpers in your doc, then send text from any website straight to them. Autogramulate accepts spelling and grammar fixes for you while you pause typing.

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Two ways Better Docs helps you write

Helpers

Put your cursor anywhere in a Google Doc and click Plant helper here. A little helper creature shaped like the letter A appears. On any website, highlight text and send it to that helper: it lands right before the helper, so the next thing you send lands after it, in order.

As many helpers as you like, in as many docs as you like
Send from Chrome's side panel, the right-click menu, or Alt+Shift+V
Optional Send on copy: everything you copy goes to your active helper, even inside web editors
Keep bold, italics, underline and links, or send plain text
Add a link back to the source page, and undo the last send
Fun creatures, or a Simple look with plain colored tags

Autogramulate

Turn on Fix grammar as I type in the Better Docs panel inside Google Docs. When you pause typing, it accepts spelling and grammar fixes for you.

Already use Grammarly? When it's running in your doc, Autogramulate can click Grammarly's own suggestions for you, one per pause.
Otherwise it uses Chrome's on-device proofreader when available, or a simple built-in set of rules for English.
It only touches text you type after turning it on, and only sentences you've finished, never the one you're typing.
It pauses in Suggesting mode and on docs you can't edit.
Choose which kinds of fixes to accept. Built-in fixes can be undone from the log; Grammarly's are undone in the doc.

Meet the helpers

Every helper is a little creature shaped like its letter: A to Z, then 1 to 9. In the Better Docs panel they bob, blink and watch your pointer, and they do a happy squish when your text arrives. In your doc, each one is a small picture sitting exactly where your next text will land.

Fun (the default)

Creatures in the panel and creature pictures in your doc.

Simple

ABC

Sleek colored tags in the panel and plain text markers like ⟦A⟧ in your doc. Switch any time under Helper look; your helpers already in docs change with it.

How it works

Connect your Google account. Open a Google Doc and click the Better Docs icon. A panel opens at the right edge of the page. Click Connect Google account and allow Better Docs to edit your Google Docs.
Plant a helper. Put your cursor where text should go and click Plant helper here. Better Docs places a helper there through the Google Docs API: a creature picture, or a text marker such as ⟦A⟧ with the Simple look.
Send text. Highlight text on any other site and send it from the side panel, the right-click menu or the keyboard shortcut. Better Docs inserts it right before the marker in your doc.
Keep writing. Turn on Autogramulate in the panel if you'd like fixes accepted for you while you type.

Your Google account and your data

Better Docs asks Google for one permission: "See, edit, create, and delete all your Google Docs documents" (https://www.googleapis.com/auth/documents). It needs it to place helper markers, insert the text you send, and apply spelling and grammar fixes, because Google Docs can only be edited reliably through Google's Docs API.

It only opens a document when you use it there: when you plant, send to or manage a helper in it, or when Autogramulate is on and you're typing in it. It never lists or searches your documents, and Autogramulate never changes text that was in the doc before you turned it on.
Your helpers, settings and history are stored in your browser. There is no Better Docs server and no account.
It talks only to Google. No analytics, no ads, and nothing is sent to the developer or anyone else.
Helper creatures are pictures hosted on this website. When you plant one, Google's servers download the picture from here and keep a copy in your doc; the picture's address only names its color and letter. Your browser doesn't contact this site for it, and the extension sends it nothing about you.
Sign out at any time to revoke access, or delete everything Better Docs has stored with one click.

Better Docs' use and transfer of information received from Google APIs to any other app will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

The privacy policy explains exactly what is accessed, stored and deleted.