Type Support

Questions, bugs, ideas: email creative@alexandergoeke.com. A real person answers, usually within two business days.

Getting started with your voice

  1. Open Settings (the gear on the home screen, or Type, Settings on the Mac) and scroll to Voice.
  2. Under Your name, type your name as it appears on your work.
  3. Get a Claude API key: sign in at console.anthropic.com, open API Keys, choose Create Key, copy it, and paste it into Paste your key. You pay Anthropic directly for what you use, usually a few cents a session.
  4. Under Documents, choose Add Folder or File and pick the writing that sounds most like you. Fiction and poetry go under "My fiction or poetry", rough notes under "Raw ideas and notes".
  5. Choose Learn My Voice. A few thousand words is enough to start; more is better.
  6. In any project, select a passage or put your cursor where you want to keep going, and use the AI menu.

Common questions

Does Type need the internet? Only for the AI co-writer. Writing, formatting, spell check, exporting and everything else work offline.

Where are my projects? On iPhone and iPad, in the Files app under On My iPhone (or iPad), Type. On the Mac, Type keeps them in its own storage; use Export or Save a Copy to put one anywhere.

Can I open and save Word files? Yes. Type opens .docx and saves back to it in place. It also opens RTF, ODT, DOC and Pages files.

Does the AI keep my writing? Type sends Anthropic only what a request needs, with your key. See the privacy policy at alexandergoeke.com/type-privacy.

Some of my files were held back as AI-written. Type checks what you add for signs of AI text so it doesn't learn the wrong voice. Choose It's Mine or AI Wrote It next to each one, then Learn My Voice again.

A file in iCloud Drive wasn't read. If it hasn't been downloaded to this device yet, Type asks iCloud for it. Choose Learn My Voice again in a minute.

How do I see what the AI wrote? Turn on Shade AI text in the editor (Settings, Voice), or open Provenance from the Export menu for a count by chapter.

Fonts

Tap the font name in the format bar, then Add Fonts at the bottom of the list. Type accepts .ttf, .otf and .ttc files. Right-click (or long-press) an added font to remove it.