The Text Lens
A transparent look at the structure of writing
Everything here is counted by fixed, published rules — no AI deciding what your words mean. Computed in your browser; nothing is stored.
Load one of four engineered samples — the box populates instantly.
Write or paste 200–500 words about a belief you used to hold but have changed your mind about this year. Describe the moment your thinking cracked.
Ephemeral: your text is computed in your browser and discarded — never stored or logged.
These same markers power the Whole Self lenses — openness and certainty feed the Persona and Belonging lenses; stance-shifts and coherence feed the Inner-Life and Narrative lenses. Want the full, private, five-lens reflection?
Start your Whole Self reflection →Word lists v0.1 · Hyland, K. (2005). Metadiscourse: Exploring Interaction in Writing. Continuum · Al-Mosaiwi, M., & Johnstone, T. (2018). Clinical Psychological Science, 6(4). Absolutist words are read here only as a linguistic pattern, never a clinical inference. Emotion vocabulary tile uses the NRC Word-Emotion Association Lexicon v1 · Mohammad, S. M., & Turney, P. D. (2013). Computational Intelligence, 29(3) — free for research and non-commercial use; this is a free, non-commercial reflective tool.