You can now guide the translation just by typing @ in the Nani Translate input field.
The best translation often depends on who is going to read it. A quick apology to a friend and an apology in a work email call for very different wording, even when the original sentence is the same.
Until now, you had to open the writing style settings to do this. With this feature, you can tell Nani what you're going for without leaving the input field.
How it works
Type @ in the input field and a list of suggestions appears. You can pick a preset like "In a work email" or "Use 'I' as the subject", or type any hint of your own.
When you pick one, a tag like @[In a work email] is inserted into your text. When you submit, the tag is separated from the body and used only as a translation hint, so it never shows up in the translated text.
Hints you've used before appear near the top of the list, so the ones you use often are easy to grab the second time around.
Translating from a hint alone
You can also submit a hint by itself, with no body text at all. Type something like "@apologize for being late" and Nani will write the message for you in the target language.
When you know what you want to say but not how to say it, just start with @.
Details
Each submission can include up to two hints, and each hint can be up to 80 characters long. Hints are also independent of your writing style settings, so your usual setup stays untouched. For example, you can keep your writing style as it is and change the subject to "we" just for one translation.
Availability
Available on the web and in the Mac and Windows apps.