Rhetorify

Pull the highlighted text out of your cards, in your browser, to build a readable block.

Rhetorify takes your cut cards and strips them down to just what you read aloud: the tag, the author, and the highlighted text. Paste a stack of cards from a Google Doc and it gives you back clean, condensed speech text. It runs entirely in your browser, uses no AI, needs no usage credits, and works offline.

A second mode, Standardize colors, does a different job on the same paste: it re-emits your cards with every highlight recolored to one color, without touching anything else.

When to use it

Use Rhetorify when you have full cards (long paragraphs with a small highlighted portion) and you want only the words you would actually say. It is the condense step before you read or before you build a speech. It also feeds Speechify, which uses the same extraction and then rewrites it into a flowing speech.

How to use it

  1. Open Rhetorify from the Tools menu.
  2. In your Google Doc, select the cards you want and copy them.
  3. Paste into the left box (Cmd/Ctrl+V). It parses automatically; there is no button to press.
  4. The right Output panel fills in live: each card becomes its tag, its author, and its highlighted text, with section headers preserved.
  5. Click Copy All to put the condensed text on your clipboard, formatted so it pastes cleanly into Google Docs or Word. Use Clear to start over.

On a phone, the two panels become Paste and Output tabs, and pasting switches you to the Output tab automatically.

What it actually does

Rhetorify reads the formatting of your pasted cards: it keeps the bold tag, the bold author line, and the text you highlighted, and it drops the unhighlighted body. That is why it only works on real cut cards, and why the result is "speech-ready" rather than a summary. Nothing is sent anywhere; the parsing happens on your device.

Standardizing highlight colors

If a case has cards cut by different people (or the same person, weeks apart), the highlight colors rarely match. Standardize colors fixes that without re-cutting anything.

  1. Paste your case into the left box, same as for Rhetorify.
  2. Switch the mode control above the output panel from Rhetorify to Standardize colors.
  3. Every distinct highlight color found in the paste appears as a chip. Each one defaults to Convert; click a chip to flip it to Keep if you want that color left alone.
  4. Pick the target color: one of the four highlight presets (Yellow, Purple, Cyan, Green) or type a custom hex value.
  5. The preview panel updates live, showing every kept-on color recolored to the target. Click Copy standardized to put it on your clipboard, formatted for Google Docs or Word.

Like Rhetorify itself, this only recolors backgrounds; it does not touch the text, the tag, the citation, or any other formatting, and nothing leaves your browser. If the paste has no highlighting at all, the panel says so ("No highlighting found in this paste") instead of showing an empty result.

Tips and limits

  • Paste from Google Docs, not as plain text. Rhetorify reads the underlying formatting (bold and highlight colors). If you paste plain text, there is nothing to extract.
  • Highlight the words you read. Whatever is highlighted is what comes through. White highlight is treated as no highlight.
  • It is free and unlimited. No credits, no caps, and it works without an internet connection.
  • Speechify: turn the same cards into a written speech.
  • Cutting Cards: make the cards you condense here.
  • Indict Finder: the sibling paste-based tool; checks a case instead of condensing it.