I keep a small set of browser text tools open when I write documentation, READMEs, and release notes. None of them need an account, and they all run locally in the browser, which matters when the text is a draft config or an internal note. These are the ones I actually use every week.
Converting case without retyping
Half my case problems are naming conventions. A database column arrives as user_first_name, a JSON key wants userFirstName, and a heading needs Title Case. I paste the string into a case converter and pick snake_case, camelCase, PascalCase, or one of the plain writing cases instead of editing character by character. It is a ten-second fix that used to interrupt my flow every time.
Cleaning pasted lists
Logs, CSV exports, and copied config values always arrive with duplicates. The remove duplicate lines tool takes a pasted list and returns the unique lines in order. I use it before diffing two lists, because a diff full of duplicates tells you nothing.
Checking length before you publish
Docs and posts both have limits that are easy to blow past: a meta description, a README summary, an abstract for a talk. A quick pass through a word counter gives me words, characters, and an estimated reading time, so I can trim before the platform trims for me.
The pattern
None of these tools is complicated, and that is the point. The win is not features, it is that they are already open, they work on pasted text, and nothing leaves the browser. If you write docs or wrangle text files regularly, bookmarking two or three of them pays for itself within a week.
All three tools above are from Wordlyo, a small free tools site I help run. No sign-up, no uploads, everything runs on the page.
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