About
The clipboard holds
exactly one thing.
And it forgets that one thing the moment you need something else. We built Phrasery because we got tired of losing the same text over and over.
Where this started
Poetry, icons, and a lot of scrolling up.
It began with poetry. Writing a poem means asking"what rhymes with this" roughly a million times, and every single time the good phrasing that came back went nowhere. Next poem, same question, typed again from scratch.
Then it happened again while designing icons — except this time the clipboard made it worse. Copy the text you need. Copy an icon. Congratulations, the text is gone. Scroll up. Find it. Copy it again. Paste. Repeat until you start questioning your life choices.
The clipboard is a brilliant tool for moving one thing a short distance. It is a catastrophic filing system.
So Phrasery is the thing that should have been there the whole time: somewhere the good text goes when you find it, that is still there next week when you need it again.
Who's building it
Hi, I'm Niki.
Developer, designer, and a fairly curious mathematician. I like building things, taking them apart, and finding out how they work — usually in that order, occasionally all at once.
Phrasery is a one-person project. I started it partly because I missed having something genuinely interesting to build, and partly because I wanted to use it myself. That second reason turns out to be the useful one: every feature has to survive me actually reaching for it, which is a slow filter but an honest one.
If something in here feels thought through, it's because it annoyed me first.
Three things we won't trade away.
Your device holds the real copy
Prompts are saved on your machine, and the app never waits for the network to show them. Sync just puts a copy somewhere safe. Stay signed out forever and nothing about it breaks.
It should see almost nothing
No analytics, no ads, nothing watching which pages you open. It gets the text you select and the box you right-click. That is genuinely all of it.
Nothing disappears quietly
Delete a folder and the prompts inside move up instead of leaving with it. Export the whole library whenever you like. Losing your own work to a mis-click is exactly the problem we started with.
Where it's going
The browser is the start, not the point.
The clipboard problem isn't a browser problem. It follows you into every app you use, so eventually Phrasery should too.
- Done
Chrome and Firefox
Capture, nested folders, the editor, right-click insert, seven themes — the same extension on both.
- Done
The prompt library
Hundreds of ready-made prompts, grouped and free to copy, on the site and inside the extension.
- Done
Accounts and sync
Sign in once and the same library follows you between browsers and machines. Signed out, nothing ever leaves your device.
- Next
In the stores
Waiting on review at the Chrome Web Store and Mozilla Add-ons. Until then it installs by hand.
- Then
Safari
The same extension, built for the one engine still missing.
- Later
Mac and Windows apps
A global shortcut, so saving and inserting works in any application — not only in a browser tab.
- Eventually
Shared libraries
Teams passing prompts to each other. Last on purpose: a shared library is only worth having once the personal one is genuinely good.
Tell me what's wrong with it.
Ideas, bugs and disagreements all land in the same inbox, and I read them. The disagreements are usually the most useful.
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