Electronic paper marking tool

# Electronic paper marking tool

A quick-mark editing mode for teachers grading electronically. Highlight a span; Yawp suggests marks like "run-on," "fragment," "spelling," "tense," etc. Faster than typing a comment for common patterns.

## Problem

Reported 2026-01-15: marking up papers electronically is slower than marking them up in pen — for common, recurring marks (circle a typo, write "RO" for run-on), the typing-and-clicking overhead exceeds the value. AI should make this easier; it doesn't yet.

Kevin's framing: "imagine if you designed a paper marking tool on YAWP! — it'd be an interesting value prop to teachers." A genuine power-user feature for teachers who grade lots of papers.

## Goals (rough)

- Highlight a span in the editor → contextual menu with suggested marks (run-on, fragment, spelling, tense, comma splice, weak verb, passive voice, etc.).
- Single-click apply; the mark renders on the doc and also surfaces as a comment.
- Keyboard shortcuts for power users.

## Non-goals

- Replacing the GA. This is for teacher-side editing, not auto-grading.
- Replacing free-text comments. Quick marks complement; long comments still possible.

## Open questions

- [ ] Default mark vocabulary — what's in the v1 list?
- [ ] Does this run AI inference per-highlight (e.g., "what kind of error is this?") or just a fixed menu? Probably the latter for speed.
- [ ] How customizable per-teacher?

## Engineering handoff

Not ready. Idea-stage. Genuinely high-leverage if pursued — could be a differentiator for teachers grading at volume.