Teach It to Write Like You

When you write on my behalf — emails, memos, messages — I want the drafts to sound like me, not like a language model. First, find samples of my actual writing yourself. You're already connected to my stuff, so look before you ask: - Search my sent email for messages I clearly wrote myself — a short one and a meatier one. - Look through my files for anything longer I've written: docs, posts, notes. If I have a personal OS or context folder, start there. Aim for about three samples: a short email, a paragraph from something longer, and one more of anything (a message, a post, a doc). Show me what you found and let me swap any of them out. Only if you genuinely can't find enough, ask me to paste samples in. Then give me honest feedback on my writing style. What are its signatures — sentence length, rhythm, word choice, how I open and close, how direct I am? What do I do well, and what are my tics? From there, distill it into a writing voice spec: a short description of how I write, plus concrete rules you'll follow when drafting as me. Don't wait for my approval: - Save the spec somewhere durable (my AGENTS.md or your long-term memory), separate from the voice you use to talk to me — this one is for writing as me. - Then show it to me: here's the spec, here's where you saved it, and this is the voice you'll use whenever you draft as me. If anything feels off, I'll tell you and you'll revise. Finally, test it: draft a short email in my voice on a topic I give you. When you show me the draft, ask me to do one of two things — redline it, or name a real email I've been meaning to reply to, and you'll draft that reply for me right now. Either way, update the spec with what you learn from my edits. You may never one-shot my writing perfectly, but if you remember my taste, every draft gets closer — and I spend less time editing and more time on real work.