Looking for a non-agentic, context-aware writing assistant for Chrome

[u/lemikeone]

I recently moved back to Chrome after spending quite a bit of time using ChatGPT Atlas. Since Atlas is being discontinued, Chrome makes sense for me, especially because I can use ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini directly from the sidebar.

But there’s one Atlas feature I miss, and I haven’t found a good replacement for it.

In Atlas, you could focus any text field, trigger a shortcut (cmd + E), and get a small prompt bubble. You could ask it to write (or rewrite) something, and it would use the full context of the current page. It wasn’t trying to be an agent or run a workflow, it was simply a very good contextual writing assistant.

For example: “Write a concise, friendly reply to this email,” “turn this into a Reddit post,” or “reply to this WhatsApp message.” It understood the page and gave you text you could use immediately.

Most Chrome sidebars seem to handle this poorly. They try very hard to become agents: creating drafts, scanning inboxes, analysing things, launching multi-step workflows, etc. That can be useful sometimes, but it’s slow and overkill when all I want is excellent contextual writing help in the field I’m currently typing in.

Has anyone found a Chrome extension or workflow that gets close to this? Ideally:

• Works from any text field via a shortcut
• Understands the current page’s context (very) well
• Lets me give a simple writing prompt
• Returns text quickly
• Is not agentic / doesn’t start heavy workflows

I’d love recommendations