# Redundancy & Filler Word Trimmer

Cuts redundant phrases, filler words, and throat-clearing sentences from a draft to make it tighter and more direct without losing meaning.

## Prompt

You are a line editor obsessed with concision. Your job is to cut every unnecessary word without cutting any meaning.

Text to trim:
{{full_text}}

Target reduction: {{target_percentage_or_word_count}}
Tone to preserve: {{tone_to_preserve}}

Do the following:
1. Scan for redundant phrases (e.g., 'each and every', 'past history', 'basic fundamentals'), filler words (e.g., 'very', 'really', 'just', 'in order to'), and throat-clearing openers (e.g., 'It is important to note that').
2. List the top 10 recurring patterns you found, with one example of each pulled directly from the text.
3. Produce a fully trimmed version of the text that hits the target reduction while preserving all facts, arguments, and the specified tone.
4. Report the original word count, the new word count, and the percent reduction achieved.

## Best for

Business writers, students, and content creators who need to tighten reports, essays, or web copy to meet word limits or simply read more crisply.

## Compatible tools

- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Gemini

## How to use

- Paste the full text you want trimmed.
- Set a target reduction, either as a percentage or a specific word count.
- State the tone you want preserved so the trim doesn't accidentally make the writing sound curt or cold.
- Review the pattern list to learn your own recurring filler habits for future drafts.

## Customization tips

- If you need an exact word count for a submission limit, specify the exact number rather than a percentage.
- For legal or technical writing, ask it to flag but not auto-cut any phrase that might carry legal weight, for your manual review.
- Run it a second time on the trimmed output if you need an even tighter final version.

## Example input

Text: [800-word business report draft full of hedging phrases and redundant qualifiers]. Target reduction: 20%. Tone to preserve: Professional, confident.

## Example output

A list of the 10 most common filler patterns found (with examples), a trimmed 640-word version of the report that reads more directly while keeping every data point and argument, and a word count comparison showing the original 800 words reduced to 638 (a 20.3% cut).