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TypWrittr – Inspirational, Minimalistic, Distraction-free Text editor

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Re: TypWrittr – Inspirational, Minimalistic, Distraction-free Text editor

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Post by yoanizer »

O_W_Grant wrote: post #22
emiunet wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I second this. Plus, I ssh into my own server, tmux att and launch vim there. It is available wherever with Internet connection for me.

well, not every one knows vim ) besides, you cannot work on vim via internet )

Do you often find yourself writing on somebody else's machine?

I don't know about you but I find that I do 99.99% of my work on one of my machines (where I have control over what's installed and what is not).

So the issue for me is not if I can access the editor from remote, but if I can access/sync the data. (which dropbox solves for me).

Re: TypWrittr – Inspirational, Minimalistic, Distraction-free Text editor

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Post by yoanizer »

andrey-p wrote: post #19
yoanizer wrote: post #16

To be honest I never really understood this need for minimalistic text editors. I can understand if all you know is MS Word, but when I need distraction free editing, I just launch Vim, open a file in my dropbox, and switch to full screen, done. No need for 10,000 projects like this (FocusWriter, WriteMonkey, WriteRoom, and whatever else). (and as everyone else already mentioned, don't start by asking people their em…

I found my favourite writing environment (IWE?) to be Vim + Goyo [1] + line-wrapping with j/k keys mapped to gj/gk [2] [1]: https://github.com/junegunn/goyo.vim [2]: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Move_cursor_by_display_lines_when_...

+1 for Goyo.

As a side note, I don't like line-wrapping too much, I prefer auto formatting (:set tw=80 and then type away, vim will handle the line breaks)

Re: TypWrittr – Inspirational, Minimalistic, Distraction-free Text editor

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Post by paulojreis »

Distraction-free and minimalistic, with background photography? I mean... not even the text area has a solid background, as it blends with the photography! It's noisy as hell, quite the opposite of what you are selling.

I'm sorry for the criticism, and I do support the initiative, but please try to align your product with your conceptual premises. Validate it, empirically. You claim it to be distraction-free? Try to get some metrics and subjective reviews, test with users. Also, you can stand on the shoulder of giants. There's literature about attention, even about typing.

Re: TypWrittr – Inspirational, Minimalistic, Distraction-free Text editor

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Post by O_W_Grant »

paulojreis wrote: post #33

Distraction-free and minimalistic, with background photography? I mean... not even the text area has a solid background, as it blends with the photography! It's noisy as hell, quite the opposite of what you are selling. I'm sorry for the criticism, and I do support the initiative, but please try to align your product with your conceptual premises. Validate it, empirically. You claim it to be distraction-free? Try to…

backgrounds do not distract, at least me, but they do help to dive deeply into story, you just have to find one. And in case you really want to have a blank white paper with black ink - just set it via preferences.

Re: TypWrittr – Inspirational, Minimalistic, Distraction-free Text editor

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Post by O_W_Grant »

gherkin wrote: post #30
O_W_Grant wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What I mean is that vim is a program that runs on your pc. Of course you can ssh to it from anywhere if you wish, but it seems to be over complicated just to write a text from any point of the world.

What makes writing text locally any better?

i do not know, for me having a tool available from almost any device via internet is better than having one only at my pc.

Re: TypWrittr – Inspirational, Minimalistic, Distraction-free Text editor

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Post by paulojreis »

O_W_Grant wrote: post #34
paulojreis wrote: post #33

Distraction-free and minimalistic, with background photography? I mean... not even the text area has a solid background, as it blends with the photography! It's noisy as hell, quite the opposite of what you are selling. I'm sorry for the criticism, and I do support the initiative, but please try to align your product with your conceptual premises. Validate it, empirically. You claim it to be distraction-free? Try to…

backgrounds do not distract, at least me, but they do help to dive deeply into story, you just have to find one. And in case you really want to have a blank white paper with black ink - just set it via preferences.

I'm sorry, but the background (behind the text) is essentially noise. It will impact your reading which will, of course, impact typing.

And about the "at least me" argument... I'm all for personal inspiration and taste in personal projects, and applaud you for following what you like. But you're trying to provide distraction-free writing for others, so you have to consider their characteristics, you have to consider what science knows about attention, reading and typing - not your taste.

I've noticed that you replied elsewhere that your typographic choice was also motivated by personal taste. Both noisy backgrounds and typography will deeply impact how your product performs in providing distraction-free writing. I think you can balance your personal touch with improvements in the fundamental dimensions of your product.

Re: TypWrittr – Inspirational, Minimalistic, Distraction-free Text editor

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Post by O_W_Grant »

paulojreis wrote: post #36
O_W_Grant wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

backgrounds do not distract, at least me, but they do help to dive deeply into story, you just have to find one. And in case you really want to have a blank white paper with black ink - just set it via preferences.

I'm sorry, but the background (behind the text) is essentially noise. It will impact your reading which will, of course, impact typing. And about the "at least me" argument... I'm all for personal inspiration and taste in personal projects, and applaud you for following what you like. But you're trying to provide distraction-free writing for others , so you have to consider their characteristics, you have to consider…

that is why there's a variety of customization options present - feel free to customize it as you wish. Also, there are two "blank" inspirational presets already build in, much inspired by blank black old terminals.

Re: TypWrittr – Inspirational, Minimalistic, Distraction-free Text editor

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Post by JadeNB »

O_W_Grant wrote: post #25
uniclaude wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> you cannot work on vim via internet Can you please expand on this? I'd say you're wrong, but I'm not quite sure I really understand what you mean.

What I mean is that vim is a program that runs on your pc. Of course you can ssh to it from anywhere if you wish, but it seems to be over complicated just to write a text from any point of the world.

There seem to be plenty of (vim-ish)-in-the-browser solutions:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3109847/is-there-any-onli...

That's from 4 years ago, and the latest answer from over a year ago; I wouldn't be surprised if the situation were better now.

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