#skrib

"I'll just use google docs, it's fine"

Google docs is now 200 pages long and you can't find anything

You open notion to make a "proper system." you spend 4 hours making the system. you write zero words

You now have notes in docs, notion, a physical notebook, your phone's notes app, and screenshots of text messages where you described a plot point to your friend at 1am

You accept that your organisational system is "vibes and prayers"

This is a personal attack because we've been there. it's literally why skrib exists.

We built something called Board. It's an infinite canvas where your research, notes, pdfs, and structure all live right next to your draft. No tab switching. No "where did i put that."

If this sounds like something your chaotic writing process needs, we're in closed beta and actively looking for writers to help us make it better. book a short call with George (link is here), tell him about your beautiful mess of a workflow and get access.

Unpopular opinion: your writing tools are not designed for writing.

Google docs is a word processor. Notion is a project manager. Scrivener was revolutionary in 2009. final draft hasn't meaningfully changed since… actually when did final draft last change?

None of them were built by someone who sat down and said "what does a writer actually need when they're deep in a project?"

You need your research next to your draft. You need your character notes visible while you write. You need to be able to pull up a pdf or a youtube video without leaving your workspace. You need your outline and your manuscript in the same place.

This is not a radical concept. this is just… obvious? and yet.

We're trying to build that. A writing studio where everything lives together. And we want writers telling us what's missing while we build it.

If you've ever rage-quit a tool mid-draft, we want to hear about it. Book a call with George and come shape what this thing becomes.

has anyone accused you of using AI when you didn't?

because it is happening more. to novelists. to fanfic writers. to screenwriters who have been writing in their specific weird voice for fifteen years. someone runs their work through a detector, gets a percentage, and suddenly the conversation shifts from "is this good" to "did you even write this"

and there's no receipt. you can't prove a negative. you can't hand someone the seventeen drafts of that one paragraph. you can't show them the four hours you spent cutting a scene you loved because the story needed it gone. you can't make them feel the way the sentence changed three times before it landed right

so we built something

it's called HAAS. Human Authorship Authentication System. and here's what it does not do: it does not read your words and decide if they sound human. it does not scan your prose for "AI tells." it does not punish you for using the word delve

what it actually does is watch how you write. the pauses between thoughts. the rhythm of your revisions. the pattern of your backspacing and rebuilding. those things are yours in a way no AI can replicate, because they come from the specific way your brain moves through language, the hesitations, the second-guessing, the burst of words that comes when something finally clicks

over time, it builds an authorship profile. a 0 to 100 score. proof that doesn't depend on someone else's algorithm deciding if your voice sounds "human enough"

you shouldn't need to prove you wrote your own work. we know that. but we also know the world is asking for it anyway, and we wanted writers to have an answer

a tool that understands your whole project. not just the document you have open right now. yeah. we built that.

what wowed our writers: split screen that actually works. old draft next to new draft. no printing anything out. also yes.

somewhere to keep research that isn't 47 browser tabs and a dream. this one is personal. i had 200 pages of california gold rush research scattered across six apps and a sticky note that fell behind my desk and i just. built something. it's called the board. your research, your notes, your structure, all of it living right next to your draft. this is the reason skrib exists. i'm still working on that screenplay. i'll keep you updated.

a workspace that makes you want to write instead of making you want to organize the workspace. this one took the longest. it's still what i'm most obsessed with. but yes.

went through the whole list. slowly. obsessively. with a lot of input from the writers in our beta who kept telling us what was still broken.

Hey writeblr. We're skrib and we just got here so let us do the thing:

We're building a writing studio. Not an app that does twelve things badly. Not AI tool. Not another notes app with a word count. An actual workspace where you plan, research, and write all in one place.

It started because our founder George spent two years trying to organize a screenplay about the california gold rush across 200 pages of scattered notes, six browser tabs, three apps, and a prayer. eventually he just... built the tool he wished existed.

Here's the part we care about most: we're not building this in a vacuum. We're building it with writers. Real ones. The kind who have 47 tabs open and a character backstory on a sticky note that fell behind the desk three weeks ago.

Right now we're in closed beta. If you want in, you book a short call with George, tell him what you're working on, what tools are failing you and what you actually need. Then you get access. That's it.

We're not here to sell you something. We're here to build the thing that should have existed already.

Come yell at us about what your writing tools are missing.

writer brain: i want my research next to my draft. right there. on the same screen. writing software: have you tried... a second window? and then a third? and then losing track of which tab had the thing?

writer brain: i want to look at the version from march and the version from today side by side writing software: sure just scroll back through your save history. it's only 47 entries. good luck.

writer brain: can i just have everything for this project in one place writing software: absolutely. just paste links between six different apps that all forgot you were logged in

writer brain: i need to focus writing software: great news, we redesigned everything. the button you used every day? gone. here are 200 new ones though

writer brain: why does none of this work the way my brain works writing software: your brain is not on our roadmap

the gap between how writers actually think and how writing software expects them to work is genuinely unhinged. like we figured out word processing in the 80s and then just... stopped asking writers what they needed.

someone on here once said "i don't need a better app, i need an app that gets how projects actually feel from the inside" and i think about that constantly. research and drafts and notes and versions all living together, not scattered across your whole computer like a crime scene.

that's basically what we're building with skrib. just trying to make the inside of the tool match the inside of a writer's head for once.

honestly? i think the conversation is missing a whole middle.

right now it feels like there are two camps. one says burn it all down, AI is theft, period. the other says let AI do everything. and most writers i know don't fully belong in either one.

i have real concerns. writers' work getting scraped without consent is not okay. AI-generated slop flooding the market is not okay. the erosion of craft is not okay. those fears are valid and i'm not here to argue with anyone who holds them.

but i also think there's a difference between AI that tries to write your novel for you and a tool that helps you find the note you wrote at 2am three months ago. one replaces you. the other just has a better memory than you do.

so the question i keep coming back to is: who's in control? if the writer is in control, if you see every suggestion and decide what stays and what goes, if your voice stays your voice... that's not replacement. that's just a tool.