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A simple distraction-free, no gimmick writing tool

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Re: A simple distraction-free, no gimmick writing tool

#31

Post by skadimoolam »

gnicholas wrote: post #29

What are the privacy policies of websites like these? I use a word counter website when writing responses that are supposed to be a certain length and have wondered about the business model. I only ever paste in text that isn’t confidential since I don’t really know. I see this site has a word counter, so if it has a good privacy policy I’d be inclined to use it instead!

I am sorry for not explaining the site's privacy policy.

I can assure that I collect no data about any user, there are no cookies what so ever. About the word counter, it uses 10 lines of JavaScript to look for the number of spaces in your text and that's all the logic that power this tool. When you save the content, it never leaves your browser.

Hope this clears you doubt.

Re: A simple distraction-free, no gimmick writing tool

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Post by KeyboardFire »

usermac wrote: post #28
shime wrote: post #16

I like the UI. Couple of ideas to think about: * remove save/restore and save on every keystroke * create new URL for each new document, restore when visited * save content in localStorage only, if it's not meant for sharing

LocalStorage is a very small space(can't recall the numbers right now) I've come to learn. And it varies between browsers.

Plain text is small, and the smallest limit appears to be on the order of 2MB, which is enough to fit several NaNoWriMo novels. (And that's if you're storing them uncompressed.)

(source: https://stackoverflow.com/q/2989284/1223693, https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/offline/quota-resear...)

Re: A simple distraction-free, no gimmick writing tool

#33

Post by KeyboardFire »

revolucien wrote: post #24

In my opinion one of the best writing tool / distraction free is http://telegra.ph/ It looks like your tool but the text formatting is Medium-like and you can share it really easily and anonymously by clicking on publish.

A similar tool, but even simpler: https://txt.fyi/

Re: A simple distraction-free, no gimmick writing tool

#34

Post by gnicholas »

skadimoolam wrote: post #31
gnicholas wrote: post #29

What are the privacy policies of websites like these? I use a word counter website when writing responses that are supposed to be a certain length and have wondered about the business model. I only ever paste in text that isn’t confidential since I don’t really know. I see this site has a word counter, so if it has a good privacy policy I’d be inclined to use it instead!

I am sorry for not explaining the site's privacy policy. I can assure that I collect no data about any user, there are no cookies what so ever. About the word counter, it uses 10 lines of JavaScript to look for the number of spaces in your text and that's all the logic that power this tool. When you save the content, it never leaves your browser. Hope this clears you doubt.

Great — you've become my new word counter website! I'll give it a try for drafting also.

Re: A simple distraction-free, no gimmick writing tool

#35

Post by faeyanpiraat »

gnicholas wrote: post #34
skadimoolam wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am sorry for not explaining the site's privacy policy. I can assure that I collect no data about any user, there are no cookies what so ever. About the word counter, it uses 10 lines of JavaScript to look for the number of spaces in your text and that's all the logic that power this tool. When you save the content, it never leaves your browser. Hope this clears you doubt.

Great — you've become my new word counter website! I'll give it a try for drafting also.

Why dont you simply use notepad++ and count the spaces?

Re: A simple distraction-free, no gimmick writing tool

#36

Post by faeyanpiraat »

The perfect combination for me for a writing tool would be a combination of notepad++ and evernote. I've tried tons of tools, but none of them are completely satisfactory.

Np++:

Pro: extremely flexible editing, moving lines around, structuring thougths with tabs and keeping the indentation level when pressing enter.

Con: Having tons of tabs of notes like "new23", "new25" makes it difficult to keep track of stuff.

Evernote:

Pro: convenient naming of snippets, tags, auto saving everything, cloud sync between devices (optional: embeddig images, or files).

Con: horrible editing experience (compared to np++ which I'm accustomed to)

Re: A simple distraction-free, no gimmick writing tool

#37

Post by roryisok »

vinceguidry wrote: post #10

I've tried perhaps a dozen of these writing tools, as I'm looking for one for my Android tablet. I've yet to find one where I can write more than a page worth of stuff without being forced to crane my neck to stare at the very bottom of the tablet for the entire rest of the time I'm writing. Sublime allows me to scroll past the end, and I didn't realize just how important that feature is until I had to trudge through…

> I wonder how much actual writing these writing app devs actually do.

Writing app dev here. Not nearly enough is the answer.

Building a writing app is probably the greatest mistake I ever made as a writer, because I spend 75% of my free time fixing bugs, following up with users and building features and the other 25% writing.

I say it's my worst mistake as a writer. But as a coder it's been a very rewarding experience and helped me land my current job

Re: A simple distraction-free, no gimmick writing tool

#39

Post by roryisok »

faeyanpiraat wrote: post #35
gnicholas wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Great — you've become my new word counter website! I'll give it a try for drafting also.

Why dont you simply use notepad++ and count the spaces?

It's not that easy. Line breaks, huphens, double spaces, punctuation etc all make it tricky

Re: A simple distraction-free, no gimmick writing tool

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Post by kleiba »

roryisok wrote: post #38

Nice tool. I would add a dark theme to it, people love a dark theme. I'm the developer of Poe, a distraction free writing app for windows, and a dark theme is the default. I regularly get email from users telling me how much they adore the colour scheme.

It's good to have options. I personally cannot stand dark color schemes, my eyes cannot handle it somehow, it's very difficult for me to read light on dark for more than a couple of seconds.
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