Write thin to write fast
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Write thin to write fast
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#2This resonates with me. I typically narrow my Outlook windows to ensure a certain look/feel to my line length and breaks. I get flustered any time the window stretches across the the screen. So fun to read through another person’s experience with this.
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#3Interesting idea. No clue if it’s true, but it deserves an upvote just for being intriguing if nothing else.
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#4Interesting. Scrivener 3 actually defaults to using no where near all the screen real estate for words when writing, keeping it in a thinner column (which I now wonder if has a way to configure it), and I wonder if a similar idea was why they did that.
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#5I will add that it’s also useful to have as much text as possible so you can see the flow, the context and the “context of the context.”
But I find this insight more or less convincing so I guess the ideal writing screen is thin and tall.
Sadly, that’s the opposite of what horizontal monitors encourage. This might be another benefit of physical notebooks.
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#6Core hypothesis: "Thinner columns help you read faster. Writing speed is dominated by reading speed. If you read faster, you write faster."
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#8First thing I noticed when getting a rotating monitor and put it in portrait mode was that reading speed went up. Not sure if it's less head movement and consequently neck strain, but anecdotally this helped my reading speed. Not sure about writing.
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#9Great insight ... most Bibles are formatted with thin columns as well. Maybe why it is easier to memorize as well. I got to try this for writing! I don't know why I didn't think of this.
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#10Does anyone know of a PDF reader than will show three pages side by side? And allow the right arrow to flip forward by one page on each press?