AI Transforms — ten one-shot edits for any text in your notes.

Most AI writing tools do one thing — rewrite, translate, summarize, outline. Knovya gives you ten of them in the same surface, scoped to a block, a section, or the whole note — with preview before apply. Pairs with AI Co-Edit for conversational drafting; Pro unlocks all six rewriting styles.

Transforms
10
Families
4
Rewrite styles
6
Transforms
Experiment 01 · The Lab

Pick a sample. Run a transform. See the preview.

Three sample texts. Ten transforms. Six rewriting styles. Knovya streams the result into a preview pane — your original is never overwritten until you apply.

Sample
Original Dense paragraph · 1 block
Transformed Summarize
Length 3
Voice 3
Language 2
Structure 2

Why this transform Summarize compresses a long passage into its essential claims — preview-only, your original is untouched.

Free includes AI Transforms with a monthly cap. Pro unlocks a generous monthly allowance and all six rewriting styles → See Pro
All ten · what AI Transforms covers

Ten transforms, four families.

Each transform answers a different question about a piece of text. Together they cover the everyday verbs of editing — from compress to translate, from polish to restructure — without ever leaving the editor.

Family I Length
3 transforms
  1. 01
    Summarize Compress a passage into its essential claims. Works at any scope — paragraph, section, or full note. Returns a tight paragraph or a bullet list, depending on the source.
  2. 02
    Simplify Reduce reading level and unpack jargon without losing meaning. The structural intent stays; the vocabulary lightens.
  3. 03
    Expand Take a thin idea — a sentence, a heading, a bullet — and grow it into a full passage with supporting detail. The opposite of summarize, with the same care for source intent.
Family II Voice
3 transforms
  1. 04
    Rewrite Rewrite the selection in a chosen style — academic, professional, casual, technical, creative, journalistic. Six registers, one preview, your original untouched until you apply.
  2. 05
    Convert tone Shift register without changing meaning. Same six styles, but tuned to preserve content and trade only the voice — useful for taking internal notes public.
  3. 06
    Maintain voice A structural review — line, heading, repetition, hierarchy. No language model rewrites the prose; the transform preserves your voice and flags only the structure.
Family III Language
2 transforms
  1. 07
    Translate Translate to any target language while preserving block structure. Headings stay headings, lists stay lists, code blocks pass through unmodified. Source language detected automatically.
  2. 08
    Fix grammar Correct grammar, spelling and punctuation without rewriting voice or restructuring sentences. The lightest of the ten — meant to repair, not refactor.
Family IV Structure
2 transforms
  1. 09
    Generate outline Produce a clean H2/H3 outline from any source text. Block-aware — the headings it generates are real Knovya blocks, ready to apply over the source or paste below it.
  2. 10
    Extract actions Pull action items, owners and decisions out of a transcript or meeting note. Returns a checklist block — checkboxes already in place, ready to assign.

AI writing tools fragment what should be one feature.

You go to Grammarly for grammar. You go to DeepL for translation. You go to Copy.ai for an outline. You go back to ChatGPT for tone. You open Notion AI for a quick rewrite. Your knowledge lives in seven places, and the verbs you use on it live in five more.

Each tool is good at one thing. None of them know your note's structure, your blocks, your sections — they take text and give text. The connective tissue is you, switching tabs, copy-pasting, losing context.

The cost
The verbs of editing — summarize, rewrite, translate, simplify, outline — get scattered across five tools that never speak to each other. The cognitive cost is the tab switch.
The fix
Ten transforms in one editor. Block-scoped, section-scoped, note-scoped. Preview before apply. One model, one undo, one click. Pairs with AI Co-Edit for the conversational pattern.
The lineage

From transformational grammar to your block editor.

"Transform" is older than software. Five paradigm shifts taught a piece of text how to become another piece of text.

  1. 1957
    Chomsky — Syntactic Structures Transformational grammar enters linguistics — the formal idea that one sentence structure can be derived from another by rule. The vocabulary that an entire field of editing would later inherit. MIT · linguistic theory
  2. 1992
    Microsoft Word — grammar checker Word integrates the CorrecText grammar engine. For the first time, a transformation on prose ships inside the editor where the prose lives — not in a separate tool. The pattern AI Transforms inherits. Microsoft · desktop integration
  3. 2016
    Google Neural Machine Translation Translation goes neural. End-to-end sequence learning replaces phrase-based statistical translation; output stops sounding like assembly. The first transform that approached human fluency at scale. Google Brain · production system
  4. 2020
    OpenAI — GPT-3 Few-shot learning collapses the boundary between summarize, rewrite, translate, outline. One model handles all of them through prompts. The verbs of editing become primitives. OpenAI · large language model
  5. 2026
    Knovya AI Transforms Ten transforms, scoped to your note's blocks. Six rewriting styles. Preview before apply. The verbs of editing finally live where the editing happens. Knovya · production
Ten in one

Nobody else gives you ten transforms inside the editor.

Grammarly does grammar. DeepL does translation. Copy.ai does outlines. QuillBot does paraphrase. Notion AI does a drawer. Each is a single verb in a single tab. Knovya is ten verbs, scoped to your blocks, with preview before apply — without leaving the note you are writing.

  • Grammarly grammar · spelling · tone
  • DeepL Write translate · paraphrase
  • Copy.ai outline · long-form gen
  • QuillBot paraphrase · summarize
  • Notion AI drawer · single prompt
  • Knovya 10 transforms · block-scoped · preview
Surfaces

Four ways to reach for a transform.

The surface follows the gesture. Select to refine. Type slash to invoke. Hover a heading to scope. Apply only when the preview earns the keystroke.

Bubble menu selection-scoped

Select any text, the bubble menu appears, the AI Transforms button reveals the ten verbs. Scope is the selection — sentence, paragraph, multi-block.

Slash menu cursor-scoped

Type / at any cursor position. The transforms surface as commands — fuzzy-search by name, run on the current block.

Section action heading-scoped

Hover a heading. The section gutter shows a transform menu — scope is the H2 to the next H2. Useful for rewriting one part of a long doc.

Preview modal apply-or-discard

Every transform streams into a preview before it touches your note. Apply replaces the source. Discard walks away. Your original is never overwritten without a click.

Bonded with

Transforms compose with the rest of Group I.

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AI Co-Edit
The conversational drawer. Transforms are the one-shot verbs; Co-Edit is the dialogue.
05
AI Skills
Custom transforms. Save a prompt as a Skill and it joins the bubble menu.
09
Conversation → Note
Save a chat as a note, then run Extract Actions on it. The transform meets the source.
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Block Editor
The substrate. Transforms operate on real BlockNote blocks — preserved, not stringified.
Frequently asked

A few honest answers.

What is the best AI outline generator?
The best AI outline generator is the one that reads what you actually have, not what you describe. Knovya's outline transform turns the actual paragraphs of a note into a clean H2/H3 structure — block-aware, section-scoped, with preview before apply. It is one of ten transforms in the same surface, not a standalone tool that pulls you out of the editor.
How does AI rewrite work in Knovya?
Select a block, a heading section, or the whole note. Open AI Transforms, choose Rewrite, pick one of six styles — academic, professional, casual, technical, creative, journalistic. Knovya streams a rewritten version into a preview pane. Apply replaces the source; Discard leaves the original untouched.
Can Knovya translate notes?
Yes. Translate is one of the ten transforms. It runs on any text scope and preserves block formatting — headings stay headings, lists stay lists, code blocks pass through unmodified. Pick a target language, preview, apply.
Does Knovya have a grammar checker?
Yes — Fix Grammar is the lightest of the ten transforms. It corrects grammar, spelling and punctuation without rewriting voice or restructuring sentences. The preview shows exactly what changed before you apply.
Can I summarize a long note?
Summarize works at any scope — paragraph, section, full note. For long notes the result is a tight paragraph or a bullet list of the essential claims. The original stays intact unless you choose to apply over it.
What is the difference between AI Transforms and AI Co-Edit?
AI Co-Edit is the conversational drawer — you ask, the model replies, you decide what to keep. AI Transforms is the one-shot pattern — pick a transform, apply it to the selection, done. Co-Edit is the dialogue. Transforms are the verbs. See AI Co-Edit.
Are AI Transforms free?
Yes. Every Knovya plan includes AI Transforms. Free has a monthly cap on credit-metered actions; Pro carries a much larger allowance and unlocks all six rewriting styles. End-to-end encrypted notes are excluded from AI on every plan since they cannot be read on the server. Compare Free and Pro.
What languages are supported?
Translate accepts any target language the underlying model supports — typically more than fifty. Source language is detected automatically. Other transforms operate in the language of the source text without translation.

Run a transform on your own notes.

Ten transforms on day one. Six rewriting styles on Pro. Preview before apply, every single time.

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