workspace.google.com• Jun 21, 2025• 1 min read
Show HN: Cogilo – Cognitive Mirror in Google DocsHi HN,I built a Google Docs Add-on that analyzes your writing to reveal your thinking patterns.I like writing. For me, its purpose has always been clarifying ideas. Writing not only sorts your thinking - it improves thinking.In the age of LLMs, however, people use them for generating texts. They got it the wrong way around.Writing is for solidifying your narratives. It’s for yourself.Many have discussed essay writing. Most recently and famously, in this HN thread on the MIT paper on cognitive debt (https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872). PG had a nice essay about good writing (https://paulgraham.com/goodwriting.html).Hence, I built a simple Google Docs Add-on, Cogilo (https://cogilo.me), that puts the writer’s thoughts at the center.Cogilo analyzes text sections for four cognitive markers. It reflects how much you suffer from analysis paralysis, information overload, and uncertainty in your essay. And it shows where you are in a flow state.Here’s a demo of Cogilo: https://www.youtube.com/wa
