A clean classical editing surface, plus an opt-in receipt of how the work came together. Plain-text events inside the editor — nothing else. The receipt is yours.
Real typography. Distraction-free. Markdown rendered as a book would render it — not as a wireframe with a checkbox. The kind of surface you want to write in for hours, not click around in for minutes.
No popups, no AI-suggestion clutter, no chrome that screams for your attention. Just the page, your voice, and the marks that come back.
Editorial marks that look like editorial marks. Notes that nest into margins. Reviewers can layer their work without trampling each other. Comment threads, suggested rewrites, queries — the things real editing looks like, finally first-class on a digital surface.
The author's draft never changes underneath. Marks live above; the original waits.
The recording is plain-text events inside the editor — keystrokes, paste actions, cursor moves, timestamps. A scrubber timeline walks you through the work: the pauses, the corrections, the paragraphs that came together one word at a time. Useful for self-study, for editorial review, and as the receipt you hand someone when authorship matters.
Opt-in at sign-up; per-doc OFF switch when you want to draft something without a receipt. Your account-level setting stays put.
Red Stet builds a composition fingerprint of you, session by session — your typing rhythm, your revision patterns, the phrases you reach for, the way your sentences open. You see one of nine writing archetypes: The Stonecutter, The Wanderer, The Architect, The Mountaineer, and others. A real description, not a Buzzfeed quiz.
Over years, the fingerprint becomes a record of how you write. A self-portrait you can revisit, and proof your voice is yours.
.red.md file.docx with tracked changes preserved, PDF with annotations preserved, .red.md with the full provenance bundleWriters care about voice. Editors care about the process. Both deserve a tool that respects how the craft actually works.
Red Stet isn't trying to write for you. It isn't going to suggest a better paragraph or rewrite your prose to sound like everyone else's. It's a place to do the work, with marks that feel natural to paper and a record that stays with the document forever.
And as AI tools become part of how everyone writes — to brainstorm, to revise, to draft — Red Stet is the proof your voice is still yours. Use AI strategically. Keep the voice that's yours.
The big "Docs" are in the AI race. For them, author authenticity is a side note. For us, it's the whole document. — Why Red Stet
Every document you write here carries a verified record of how it was written. Years from now, when authorship is the question, the answer is already on the page.