Introducing Personalization: Tell Echoo Who You Write For
The right wording depends on who is writing and who is reading.
A nurse updating a patient, a lawyer answering a client, and a developer replying to a teammate can start from the same rough sentence and need three different results. An AI command that knows nothing about you has to guess, and it usually lands somewhere generic.
Personalization gives Echoo that missing background. It is new in Echoo 1.3.0 for Pro and Max, and it applies to every command you run.
Four quick answers, plus an optional note
Tell Echoo your age, your country, what you do, and who you write for. If you want, add a short note about yourself: your background, interests, or how you like your messages to read. For example: "I build apps, English is my second language, and I prefer short, friendly messages."
Every field is optional. Fill in one or all of them. It takes under a minute.
What changes in your results
With that background, a command has fewer blanks to fill in on its own:
- Terminology that matches your field, instead of the most generic word
- Spelling that fits where you are, like "colour" or "color"
- Tone and formality suited to your readers, whether they are clients, colleagues, or students
- Level of detail that fits your audience, with less over-explaining for experts and more clarity for everyone else
Here is the kind of difference that makes. A backend developer in Spain, writing for their engineering team, runs To English on a quick Slack note in Spanish:
el despliegue se quedó colgado por la migración, lo revertí, lo reviso después de la reunión diaria
Without Personalization: "The deployment got hung because of the migration, I reverted it, I will review it after the daily meeting."
With Personalization: "Deploy got stuck on the migration, so I rolled it back. I'll look into it after standup."
Same meaning, no facts added. The second version uses the terms engineers actually say, like "rolled back" and "standup", and reads like a message to teammates, not a formal report.
This works in every writing command, including Rewrite, To English, Translate, and the custom commands you create.
What it does not do
Your profile is background, not a set of instructions. Echoo tells the AI model to use it only when it is relevant, to treat it as information rather than commands, and not to add your personal details to the result or mention the profile.
Personalization also does not learn anything behind your back. It holds only what you typed, and nothing is inferred from your writing.
Personalization and Memory
Personalization and Memory work on different kinds of context.
Personalization is what you tell Echoo about yourself. One short profile applies to every command.
Memory is what a single command learns from its own history, like the names and phrasing it has seen you use. You turn it on per command.
They work well together. Personalization sets the background from the first run, and Memory adds detail over time.
Your profile, your control
Your profile is saved on your Mac. It is sent to the AI provider with the commands you run, because that is how a command can use it. Echoo's product analytics never receive your answers, only which fields are filled in.
You can edit any field at any time, or clear everything with Remove All.
Where to find it
Open the Echoo menu bar icon and choose Personalization…
It is also in Settings, under General. The row shows a summary of your profile, and Edit opens the same window.
If you have not set up a profile yet, the What's New window in 1.3.0 takes you straight there with Get Better Results.
Personalization ships in Echoo 1.3.0 for Pro and Max. Four quick answers, under a minute, and every command has more to work with.
Mike
Creator of Echoo