In this guide· 3 chapters
Not a blank page — a draft that is already yours
It does not start from nothing. It starts from knowing you.
Ask most tools to write something and you get a wall of generic text you paste elsewhere and lose. 1Presence writes from a standing start of knowing your world — your past decisions, the people involved, the way you phrase things — so the draft arrives at eighty per cent, about your client and in your voice, not zero per cent about no one.
And it does not vanish. Every piece lands as a real file in your vault — plain and yours, to open, edit, keep, and turn into a shareable link in a tap.
The kinds of things to ask for
The documents that always need writing and never quite get the time:
Strategy & plans
A launch plan, a positioning brief, a campaign outline — shaped around what you actually sell and to whom.
Pitches & proposals
A one-page pitch, a full proposal, a statement of work, a follow-up — built from the context of the deal, not a template.
Emails & messages
The reply you have been avoiding, the cold outreach, the difficult note — drafted in your tone, shown before anything sends.
Briefs & reports
Status reports, research write-ups, meeting summaries — pulled together from your mail, calendar and vault at once.
Agreements & letters
A first draft of a contract, an engagement letter, terms — a strong starting point to take to a professional.
Whatever you repeat
The document you write the same way every time can become a skill it knows — ask once, and it just produces it.
Write it, then shape it, all by asking
You do not draft in one screen and edit in another — the document and the conversation sit on the same screen. Open the piece in your vault and 1Presence is right beside it: you read, you point at the part that is wrong, it changes that part in the file. Every version is kept, so stepping back is always a tap away.
Draft from a plain ask
Write me a one-page pitch for the Acme deal, ready to send.
It pulls the scope, the numbers and the angle that worked before, and saves a finished draft to your vault.
Draft the quarterly update to investors from what happened this quarter.
It gathers the quarter from your mail, calendar and vault, and writes it in your voice.
I need a warm reply to this email declining the meeting but keeping the door open.
It drafts the reply in your tone and shows it to you before anything is sent.
Edit an existing document
Make this warmer and cut it by a third.
No need to say which document — it can see the one you have open. It revises in place; the new version saves over the last, with history kept.
Lead with the price, and lose the jargon.
It restructures and plainer-words the draft, keeping everything else as it was.
Tighten the second section and add a short closing line.
It edits just those parts — you are steering, not rewriting from scratch.
Select the words you mean first, and they become the subject of whatever you say next — so you can be as vague as you would be out loud.
Point at a passage and talk about it
Lose this.
The highlighted passage goes. Nothing else is touched, and the version before it is kept.
This bit reads like a lawyer wrote it.
It plainer-words exactly the sentences you selected, leaving the tone of the rest alone.
Is this actually true?
It checks the selected claim against what it knows and what it can reach, and tells you — rather than quietly rewriting it.
Explain this clause to me like I have never seen a contract.
A plain-English reading of the passage in the chat beside the document. Nothing is changed unless you ask.
It writes from what it knows
The quality of the writing comes from the quality of the context behind it — and that is where the rest of the product pays off. Memory gives it your history and the way you like things phrased. Connectors let it reach the live detail — the email thread this answers, the figures in your sheet. And it folds all of it into one draft, so “write the Q3 update” arrives already knowing what Q3 held.
Nothing is invented out of thin air. You can expand show what it did to see which sources it drew on — the document is assembled from what is genuinely yours.
Straight into your vault, ready to reuse and share
The moment a piece is written it becomes a note you own:
- Kept, not lost. Every draft is filed in your vault as plain text — searchable, versioned, openable in any editor.
- Edited in place. Refine it in the app or by asking; the next version saves over the last, with history kept.
- Reused as a template. Turn a document you write often into a template that re-fills from your connected world, with every value showing where it came from. See the templates guide.
- Shared in a tap. Turn any document into a typeset public link, or share it privately with named people who can read, comment or edit alongside you. See sharing.
How writing a document goes
- 1
Ask for the piece
Say what you need written and who it is for — a sentence is often enough; it fills the rest from what it knows.
- 2
Read the first draft
It writes it in your voice, saves it to your vault, and shows it to you — already most of the way there.
- 3
Shape it by asking
“Warmer”, “shorter”, “lead with the price” — it edits in place, keeping every version so you can step back.
- 4
Keep, reuse, or share
Leave it in your vault, turn it into a reusable template, or share it as a public or private link — all in a tap.
A note on legal documents
1Presence will happily draft an agreement, a letter or a set of terms, and it is a genuinely good way to get from a blank page to a working draft fast. But a draft is what it is — a strong starting point, not legal advice. For anything that carries real weight, take what it wrote to a qualified professional. Think of it as the work that gets you eighty per cent of the way in a few minutes, so the expensive half-hour is spent on judgement, not typing.
Produce, keep, share
The writing you needed, already filed.
Ask for the pitch, the report, the hard email; get a real first draft in your voice, saved to your vault as a file you own, refined by asking, and one tap from a shareable link.
Common questions
Q How do I edit a document it already wrote?
Just say what to change — “make it warmer”, “cut it in half”, “lead with the price”. It revises the document in place and saves the new version over the last, keeping the history so you can step back.
Q Can it work on a document while I have it open?
Yes — that is the way most people end up using it. Open any document in your vault and the conversation sits alongside it: beside the page on a wide screen, a drawer you pull up on a phone. It can see which file is open, so you never paste it in or describe it, and it edits the file itself rather than handing you text to copy across. Highlight a passage first and that passage becomes what you are talking about.
Q Does it only work on documents 1Presence wrote?
No. Any document in your vault opens the same way — including ones you wrote yourself, ones you uploaded, and ones someone shared with you (within whatever access they gave you).
Q Where does the writing go?
Every piece lands as a real file in your vault — plain text, searchable, versioned, and openable in any editor. It does not disappear when you close the tab.
Q Will it sound like me?
It writes from what it knows about you — your past decisions, the people involved, the way you phrase things — so drafts arrive in your voice rather than generic. You can always ask it to adjust the tone.
Q Can it write the same document every week?
Yes — turn it into a template it re-fills from your connected world, or have it run as part of a workflow so the Monday update or monthly note arrives written, ready for your eye. More on templates.