For grown-ups
How to use it
- Capture: type an idea and press Enter — or, if the browser supports it, tap 🎤 Speak to say it. Don't stop to judge; get everything out.
- Shape: reorder ideas with ↑ ↓, star (⭐) the keepers, and drop the rest with ×.
- Tap Keep this draft 💛 to save it to Your drafts; open one to keep shaping, 🔊 Read it to hear it back.
Why separate capture from shaping
The hardest part of writing for many students is the blank page. Splitting the work into a fast, judgement-free capture pass and a calm shaping pass — the "get a messy first draft down, then order it" move — lowers that barrier. Speaking ideas lowers it further for students who think faster than they type. We describe the rationale honestly and claim no measured writing outcome — RambleForge is a supportive tool, not an intervention.
About the microphone (opt-in, off by default)
Dictation uses the browser's built-in speech recognition, and only on the device: the 🎤 appears only when the browser says it can recognise speech without sending it anywhere. If it can't (many browsers today send speech to the browser maker's servers), there is no 🎤 — typing always works. It is opt-in: nothing listens until a student taps 🎤 Speak, and it stops on its own. We keep no audio and send nothing anywhere; a draft is saved only on this device.
No pressure, no counting
There is deliberately no score, no streak, and no word-count. The shelf just holds the drafts you kept. Everything is on this device only, with no notifications.