The PubWriter's Toolbox

New for 2025 - AI Focus

Phonetic Spelling Generator - Because AI often needs help pronouncing words correctly.

Example prompt for NLM: The proper phonetically way to say 'Morro Bay' is 'Morow Bey'

Markdown & Plain Text

Most Often Used

‡(This tool is helpful to clean out 'formatting gremlins' and replace smart quotes with regular straight quotes:)

Social Media

Added Recently 🆕

AI & Prompt Engineering

Netspeak - Note: You type the word followed by a ?

Tech Writer's Toolbox

JavaScript Beautifier
JS, CSS, HTML Beautifier - Beautify, unpack or deobfuscate JavaScript and HTML, make JSON/JSONP readable, etc.
🆕HTML Minifier - Minify HTML and any CSS or JS included in your markup

Website Checkers / Tools for Websites

SEO tools

Text-only editors

Markdown specific editors

Typora (Mac/PC)
Notebooks (Mac/PC)
Noteplan (Mac)

Minimalist Writing Tools

If you use dropbox, you can export your dropbox paper docs in markdown if you want to publish them to your website.

These are kind of hit & miss. Some work great for awhile and then get abandoned by the developer.

CSS

Graphic Design

TouchRetouch: Object Removal - also available for iOS devices.

Video

Audio

A Writer's Toolbox

2-column PDF Print
Title Case Converter
Remove Duplicate Lines
Random Word Generator: Generate a list of random words. Great tool for brainstorming ideas.
Random Number Generator: Generate some random numbers in a specific number range.
Random Sentence Generator: Create random sentences for creative brainstorming.
Remove Line Breaks: Remove unwanted line breaks from your text.
Random Choice Generator: Let this tool make a random decision for you.
Convert Word to HTML: Automatically convert word contents to HTML code.
Text to HTML: Quickly change plain text into HTML paragraphs.
HTML to Text: Remove HTML tags, leaving only text content.
Alphabetical Order: Alphabetize lists, or other text content with this tool.
Capitalize the First letter of Sentences
HTML Table Generator: Generate the code for a simple HTML table.
Word Counter: Count the number of words in your text.
Remove Duplicate Lines: Remove duplicate lines from a text file.
HTML Compression: Compress HTML contents into a smaller size.

Webmasters Toolbox

DNS/MX/Whois Lookup
Self Host Google Fonts 🆕
CSS Inverted Colors
Fast Whois Lookup
Convert a table to HTML
Multiple Helpful Tools
ASCII Code - The extended ASCII table - Helpful when using text in JS
HTML Color Names
HTML Symbol Entities Reference