You have written it and it reads wrong. Paste it in, say which direction, and get the same facts at a different distance.
Dear Ms Claes,
Further to my correspondence of 3 September, I note that the requested documentation has not yet been received.
I should be grateful for confirmation of a date by return.
Hi Ann,
Just circling back on the documents I asked about on 3 September, they have not reached us yet.
Could you let me know a date that works? Happy to take them in whatever format is easiest.
The facts hold, the distance changes
Warmer, for a client you have known for years
Firmer, for the third time of asking
Shorter, because it runs to four paragraphs
More formal, because it is going to a board
Register drift is the risk worth watching. A warmer rewrite that quietly turns a deadline into a suggestion has changed the meaning, not the tone.
The whole draft, including the parts you like. It rewrites around them rather than replacing everything.
Warmer, shorter, firmer, more formal. One word of direction does more than a paragraph of explanation.
Dates, figures and commitments should come through untouched. That is the thing to verify, not the adjectives.
If the message is bad news, every register carries bad news. Pick the one that is honest about it.
Very formal reads as distance, and with a client you know well that is its own message.
The most common failure in a warmer rewrite is a hard date turning into a hope.
Rewriting is what you do when the draft came out wrong. Pidgy is aimed at the version where it did not.
of the workweek goes to reading and answering email, before any of the work inside it gets done.
McKinsey Global Instituteto get back to what you were doing after a single inbox interruption.
Mark et al., UC IrvineYes. No account, ten runs a day, nothing you paste is stored.
Plain ones. Warmer, firmer, shorter, more formal, less apologetic. You can combine them.
It should, and that is worth checking on your first run. A rewrite that moves a number is a rewrite you cannot use.
Not from one paste. It gets the register right. Sounding like you specifically is what Pidgy does from your sent folder.
Pidgy writes the first one in your register, learned from the mail you have already sent.
