The more of your real writing I have, the closer the profile gets. Here's every
place it's probably hiding, and exactly how to pull it. Pick the two or three that fit you.
Your own writing only. Every export below is you downloading your own words
from your own accounts. writeslikeme builds a profile of you. It isn't a tool for
collecting anyone else's data, and I won't work from writing that isn't yours.
Start here: the big ones
Google Takeout best source
Your sent emails are the single best sample there is: real audience, real stakes, written
fast, no AI. Docs and Chat come along for the ride.
Go to takeout.google.com, sign in with the account you write from.
Click Deselect all.
Mail: check it → "All Mail data included" → keep only Sent.
Drive: if you write in Google Docs, check it → pick just the folders with your own writing.
Google Chat: check it for casual, off-the-cuff messages.
Next → "Send download link via email" → Export once → .zip → Create export.
Link arrives by email, usually within the hour. Send the zip as-is.
Discord best for casual voice
Years of how you actually talk when you're relaxed. This is where your casual register lives.
Open Discord → User Settings (gear) → Data & Privacy.
Scroll to "Request all of my Data" → make sure Messages is checked → Request Data.
Discord emails you a download link. It takes 3-30 days depending on account size, so request this one first, tonight, and do the others while you wait.
You get a zip of your messages as JSON files. Send it as-is; I do the parsing.
Facebook & Instagram Meta
Posts, comments, and Messenger/DM history: a long record of your everyday voice.
Go to accountscenter.facebook.com → Your information and permissions → Download your information.
Choose which accounts (Facebook, Instagram, or both), then instead of "all information," select just Posts, Comments, and Messages.
Date range "All time", format JSON (the machine-readable one my tools parse directly), and set media quality to Low. I only need the words, and it shrinks the file a lot.
Takes up to 24 hours; they notify you when it's ready to download.
If you have them
X / Twitter public voice
Years of your unedited public voice, compressed. Replies especially: written fast,
to a real person, no polish.
On desktop: More → Settings and privacy → Your account → Download an archive of your data.
Confirm your password and the verification code they send. Then Request archive.
Usually ready within 24 hours; big accounts can take a few days. You get an email and an in-app notice, and the link lives in that same settings page.
Send the zip as-is. My tools read your tweets straight out of it and drop every retweet automatically — only words you wrote count.
LinkedIn professional voice
Your posts and long comments: the closest thing to how you write for a work audience.
On desktop (the mobile app can't do this): profile photo → Settings & Privacy → Data Privacy → Get a copy of your data.
Pick the specific files option and select Shares/Posts, Comments, and Articles if you have them (or grab the full archive; it's a set of small CSV files either way).
Emailed within 24-48 hours. The download link expires after 72 hours, so grab it when it lands.
Reddit
If you write real comments and posts, that's a deep well of your unfiltered voice.
Go to reddit.com/settings/data-request (desktop browser) → Submit.
Officially up to 30 days, but usually ready within hours for normal accounts. The link
arrives as a message in your Reddit inbox, not your email.
You get a zip of CSV files (posts, comments). Send it as-is; my tools read both.
Or, faster for a few samples: just copy-paste 15-20 of your longer comments into a doc.
WhatsApp / Telegram / iMessage / texts
How you write to people you're close to. Very casual, very you.
WhatsApp (Android): open a chat → ⋮ → More → Export chat → Without media → email it to yourself. You get a clean .txt file.
WhatsApp (iPhone): tap the contact/group name at the top → scroll down → Export Chat → Without Media → share via Mail.
Without-media exports go back ~40,000 messages per chat (4× further than with media). Export your 2-3 longest-running chats; that's plenty.
Telegram: only Telegram Desktop can do this — open a chat → ⋮ → Export chat history → untick all media → format JSON. (Or Settings → Advanced → Export Telegram data for everything at once.)
iMessage / texts: no clean export exists. Copy-paste a couple dozen of your own longer messages into a doc.
Outlook / other email
Outlook.com: Settings → General → Privacy and data → Export mailbox.
Any email: forwarding yourself 15-20 sent emails, or copy-pasting them into a doc, works fine.
Blogs, Substack, Medium, Notion, Word docs
Anything longer you wrote solo. No export needed. Drop the files or paste the text.
Substack: Settings → Exports → your posts as HTML.
Medium: Settings → Download your information.
Notion / Docs / Word: just send the files, or copy the text in.
Prep your export in five minutes.
Exports grab everything by default. Here's how to send a clean one,
and what you can skip worrying about entirely:
Pick the text-only options. "Sent only" for Mail, "Without media" for
WhatsApp and Telegram, JSON format for Meta. Smaller file, faster upload, and it's the words I need anyway.
Other people's messages in your export? Totally fine. Chat and email
exports always include both sides of a conversation; that's how they work. Send it as-is:
I filter down to just your messages when I measure, and everything else is deleted
with the rest of the raw data on day 7.
Give the zip a 2-minute skim. Open it before sending. If a file is
account numbers, verification codes, or tax documents instead of writing, delete that file.
It teaches me nothing about your voice.
Under NDA at work? Swap those pieces for everyday writing. A landlord
email measures your voice exactly as well as a confidential report does.
Send through the site's upload. It goes straight into private storage
only I can read. And a standing rule you can hold me to: I'll never ask for a password,
payment login, or verification code; anyone who does isn't me.
Everything raw is deleted 7 days after delivery, with written
confirmation. The finished profile is patterns about your style, not your private content.
What actually makes a good sample
You wrote it, no AI. One AI-assisted piece skews the whole measurement, so skip anything you're unsure about.
Range beats volume. A complaint, a request, a thank-you, something written annoyed. Different moods teach me more than 50 of the same.
Don't clean it up. Typos, run-ons, weird punctuation: that is your fingerprint. Send it raw.
Both registers help. Formal (emails, posts) and casual (Discord, texts) are two different writers. Send both if you want both voices.
Floor is ~10 pieces / a few thousand words. More is better, up to a point. Two good sources usually covers it.
Whatever you send is used only for your profile and deleted 7 days after delivery, with written
confirmation. Nothing identifying reaches the profile itself. How it's processed, including the
service providers involved, is spelled out in the privacy policy.