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How do I customize Witty?

Step 1: Go to the dashboard

  • Open the Witty browser plugin.
  • Click on the settings wheel und you get redirected to the dashboard.
  • If necessary, log in the dashboard.

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Step 2: Customize Witty for yourself

In the dashboard, you can customize Witty for yourself and your team. Let's first have a look at your personal customization.

Language Settings

  • Language Settings: Select the English and German dialect you use to get suggestions tailored to your language background.
  • Use gender-neutral pronouns in English:  When switched on, Witty suggests using gender-neutral pronouns such as "their" instead of "his" or "her".

  • Choose the German Gender ending: select the German gender ending you use to get suggestions tailored to your language style.

  • Become an inclusion pro: When switched on, Witty highlights also more subtle issues about diversity and inclusion. 

  • Highlight style issues: When switched on, Witty makes suggestions to make your text more understandable, or to give it authenticity or emotionality. Learn more.

Dictionary

Improve your experience by adding words to your dictionary. All words added to this list will become highlighted by Witty, and your custom replacement will be shown as alternatives.

Ignored words

Add words or terms to the that Witty should no longer highlight.

Privacy setting

In your privacy settings, you can add domains for which Witty will be disabled.

 

Step 3: Customize Witty for your team

In the dashboard, you can also customize Witty for your team. Let's have a look!

Language Settings

For each setting, your can choose if your setting is mandatory for all members of my team or if they can overwrite it.

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  • Language Settings: Select the English and German dialect you use to get suggestions tailored to your language background.
  • Use gender-neutral pronouns in English:  When switched on, Witty suggests using gender-neutral pronouns such as "their" instead of "his" or "her".

  • Choose the German Gender ending: select the German gender ending you use to get suggestions tailored to your language style.

  • Become an inclusion pro: When switched on, Witty highlights also more subtle issues about diversity and inclusion. 

  • Show inspirations to rephrase entire sentences: When switched on, Witty will make suggestions to rephrase entire sentences. This feature is only availabe for the plan Witty Teams or higher.
  • Inclusive terms: When switched on, Witty highlights inclusive terms. For these, no alternatives are offered.
  • Highlight style issues: When switched on, Witty makes suggestions to make your text more understandable, or to give it authenticity or emotionality. Learn more.

  • Grammar & Spelling: 
    When switched on, Witty checks grammar & spelling issues.

Dictionary

Improve your experience by adding words to your team's dictionary. The words in this list are shared among your team. Witty highlights any words in this list and suggests the alternative to the whole team. The words in this list are shared among your team. Witty highlights any words in this list and suggests the alternative to the whole team.

Ignored words

The words in this list are shared among your team. Witty will no longer highlight any word in this list for your whole team.

Privacy setting

  • Data Collection: When switched on, Witty stores some characters before and after the marked term in certain situations. This helps to improve Witty and make better suggestions in the future. To customize this setting, a subscription of Witty Teams or higher is required.
  • Domain settings: You can choose for which domains Witty should be enabled. There are three possibilities:
    • Witty should work only in the Witty Editor
    • Witty should work only for the domains you define
    • Witty should work everywhere except for the domains your exclude

 

You are ready to go and customize Witty! 🚀