The tools and templates we use
We keep our tool kit small. Every tool on this page is one we use on real client work each week, and we say plainly where each one falls short. Nobody pays to be listed here.
Quillmeter, our readability checker
Quillmeter is a small desktop app that checks a draft as you type. It flags long sentences and rare words in place and leaves the rewriting to you. We use it on the sentence step of the checklist our editors run on every post.
Quillmeter
Quillmeter does one job well. It highlights long sentences and rare words in place, without rewriting anything for you, so the writer stays in charge. It is quick and works offline. It loses a point because it treats every long word as a problem, even the technical terms a specialist reader expects, and because it has no way to share settings across a team.
The Larkspur Brief Kit
Clients often ask for our editing checklist as a file they can share with their own writers. We put it together with our brief template and a calendar sheet.
Larkspur Brief Kit
GBP 29.00
Our brief template, our editing checklist as a printable page, and a simple calendar sheet, in formats that open in any word processor or spreadsheet. Made for teams of one to five writers.
The calendar sheet is the same one we explain in our guide to a content calendar a small team can keep.