Lightweight markup pad

A full editor brings shortcuts, toolbars, paste handling and a document model, all of which can argue with the browser's own typing behaviour. Sometimes the job is smaller than that: you have text, you want to see the tells inside it, and you want to keep typing around them. This pad does exactly that and nothing else.

Because the marks are written into the content itself, you can click next to one and edit the sentence immediately. That suits a fast second pass, when the draft already exists and the work is trimming rather than composing.

The pad does not re-mark while you type; it would fight your cursor. Press mark up when you want a fresh reading, which also clears the previous marks so the page reflects the current text rather than an older state. Clear removes every mark and leaves plain text behind.

This is deliberate. Highlights that follow every keystroke make the page restless, and a still page is easier to judge. Mark up is a request for a verdict, not a permanent overlay.

Wrapping words in the content means copying the pad out brings the markup along in rich-text destinations. If you need to hand the text on, use clear first, or retype the edited sentences into your real document. Treat this pad as a reading surface, not the file of record.