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.

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.

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.