New in Lex: Fix Confusing Parts, Brainstorm Intro Ideas, and More
Hey! Nathan here. A few updates for you today:
1. New prompts
90% of readers don’t make it past the first few sentences. (I made that number up but it feels right.) And the rest often bail if there’s even one confusing part they stumble over.
To help make sure this doesn’t happen to your writing, we just added two new prompts to Ask Lex (our chat interface that sits next to your draft) that I think you’ll find useful:
Flag confusing parts helps you find anything in your draft that might leave readers confused. For example, my first draft of this email forgot to explain what the two new prompts did. (No kidding!) It’s ok, we all make mistakes. But it’s better for AI to catch it than your boss (or worse, readers).
Brainstorm intro ideas generates a list of ideas for opening hooks that commonly work well. For example you may want to tell a sensory story, share an alarming fact, or assert a bold claim. We’re spitballing here. True story: my original intro for this email just started with “We added two new prompts” until I ran this prompt on it.
Here’s a screenshot with the new prompts tastefully and subtly highlighted for your convenience:
To use these prompts now: just open any document at https://lex.page, open Ask Lex (top right icon, right under your profile picture), then click the option at the bottom. It’s free and available to everyone! Lex Pro subscribers will get feedback from the most powerful language models, but it’s useful even without the latest Claude or GPT versions.
Fun fact: you can use our Prompt Builder to create your own prompts that will show up in this list, and even see and modify our default prompts. Click here to watch a video showing how.
(Skip to 2:55 to see the prompt builder in action, the rest is an overview of how to use Lex generally.)
2. Login without Google
Until now the only way to login has been to connect your Google account. No longer! Now you can sign up with any email address you want.
3. Want to join our team?
In case you missed it, last week we announced we’re hiring a Writer in Residence to help us cultivate an early community of writers using Lex in many different niches. In this job you would:
Identify potentially great users of Lex
Talk to them
Help them use Lex
Learn how they use Lex—what works and what doesn’t
Spread those learnings back to the product team and to other Lex users
Write prompts that Lex users can use to get better feedback on their writing
Help us tell the story of Lex (big picture stuff, and small stuff like changelog)
Write about everything you’ve learned
It’s basically a “writer relations” role — a mix of community, sales, marketing, and writing.
The deadline to apply is Sunday night at midnight pacific time. (In reality, I’m gonna do one last review of applications on Monday morning pacific time, so you’re good as long as you apply before then.)
This would be a 3 month contract to start, followed by a full time offer with equity if everything is working well. Since this role will involve a lot of meetings and calls, we’re looking for someone in a timezone between California and Central European time.
Click here to read the job description and click here to apply.
That’s it for this week! Thanks so much and as always feel free to reach out if you have any questions.
— Nathan Baschez, CEO of Lex.
PS — in case you missed it, we launched Lex for Teams last week, and the custom Prompt Builder where you can make your own saved, re-usable prompts a few weeks before that.