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Parts of Speech

Parts of Speech (POS) highlighting colours words by their grammatical function — nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and more. This helps you see the structure of your writing and identify patterns like overuse of adverbs or passive constructions.

Enabling POS

Open the Focus menu → Parts of Speech submenu. Toggle Enabled to turn on POS highlighting for the current window.

Customising Colours

The POS submenu shows each part of speech with its current colour. Each part can be individually enabled or disabled:

  • Nouns
  • Verbs
  • Adjectives
  • Adverbs
  • Pronouns
  • Determiners
  • Prepositions
  • Conjunctions
  • Interjections
  • Other word classes

Use Clear All to reset all POS highlights.

How It Works

POS analysis uses macOS natural language processing (NLTagger). It runs on the visible text and updates as you type. The analysis is performed per-paragraph for efficiency.

Per-Window

POS highlighting is per-window, like Focus Mode. If you open the same note in two windows, each can have different POS settings.