Show HN: I'm building an app for focused writing

#1

Post by tanaykarnik » Tue, Sep 03, 2024, 3:59 PM UTC

- Markdown support

- Tracks session timings and word counts

- PWA, works fully offline, no sign-up needed

- Local-first with P2P sync

- Focused writing: dims previous lines, highlights current sentence, Hemingway mode

- Light/Dark mode

- Fair-source. Licensed under FSL.

Currently working on showing stats to track progress and export options.

What else would you like to see?

Show HN: I'm building an app for focused writing
write.tanay.xyz

Re: Show HN: I'm building an app for focused writing

#2

Post by randomcatuser » Tue, Sep 03, 2024, 5:12 PM UTC

hahaha i think we had similar ideas!! i just started mine like two weeks ago, welcome to colab! https://owri.netlify.app/

i think my favorite feature is device sync -- how does that work?

Re: Show HN: I'm building an app for focused writing

#3

Post by dieter_be » Fri, Sep 06, 2024, 6:40 AM UTC

The UI might be a bit too minimal. it's not clear to me why it has multiple text fields (i assumed one might be the title, and the others for content, but both of them seem to be rendered inline as 1 sentence)

live preview would also be nice.

do you intend this to be more for (personal) journaling or blogging? (if the latter, some kind of integration with hugo would be nice)

Re: Show HN: I'm building an app for focused writing

#4

Post by tanaykarnik » Fri, Sep 06, 2024, 5:50 PM UTC

dieter_be wrote: post #3

The UI might be a bit too minimal. it's not clear to me why it has multiple text fields (i assumed one might be the title, and the others for content, but both of them seem to be rendered inline as 1 sentence) live preview would also be nice. do you intend this to be more for (personal) journaling or blogging? (if the latter, some kind of integration with hugo would be nice)

thanks for the feedback!

the writing screen doesn't have multiple text fields, it's just one area for writing that has the last line highlighted since you can't edit previous lines.

and yes, it is possibly a bit difficult to understand because it's too minimal, i'm working on improving the UX and writing a guide/landing page that explains things.

Re: Show HN: I'm building an app for focused writing

#5

Post by tanaykarnik » Fri, Sep 06, 2024, 6:11 PM UTC

randomcatuser wrote: post #2

hahaha i think we had similar ideas!! i just started mine like two weeks ago, welcome to colab! https://owri.netlify.app/ i think my favorite feature is device sync -- how does that work?

hey, thanks!

i'm using cr-sqlite + PeerJS for the peer-to-peer sync. so it works using WebRTC.