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I think backspace should count as a keystroke within the same sentence for the purpose of delaying deletion.
It would be really cool for this to dump your content into a rich text editor when your time is up for spell check, cleaning, and editing before download.
The lack of spell-check was pretty great in helping to focus in on writing. I will try turning that off when I write in the future, returning to the old way of running spell-check after I have gotten the thoughts down on the page. Five minutes essay below... also, first post (hello!) to Hacker News. This is a test of the most dangerous writing app in the world. I am typing in whatever comes to mind in a stream of con…
I write everything in vim and then copy it over/generate it/whatever afterwards. I can't stand all the different spelling corrections, auto-completes, and everything else getting in the way. It's so totally distracting.
This was fun, my two cents: I think backspace should count as a keystroke within the same sentence for the purpose of delaying deletion. It would be really cool for this to dump your content into a rich text editor when your time is up for spell check, cleaning, and editing before download.
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I think everyone older than 30 does. I also have the habit of pressing it more than one time, every time I press it. I'm not even be sure that save will really save.
I moved to using an IDE. Everything is saved and always. There isn't even a save button. I also moved from vi/vim quite painlessly and never find ':wq' or 'hhhjjjj' in documents that I have edited, this was a genuine danger once. With the right tools - an IDE with version control - the quaint notion of saving files can be mostly forgotten and the fear of losing unsaved work banished. Even if over 30 adaptation is pos…
This reminds me of early versions of Microsoft Word. Edit: And more generally, DOS, FAT and CHKDSK. You never knew, when there was a power interruption -- or when the system just crashed for whatever mysterious reason -- just how bad it would be. NTFS was such an improvement.
I still have a habit of pressing CTRL-S intermittently...
I still do it reflexively after every significant change.
I got to 5 minutes. I have a kid so this was easy :D Once upon a time there was a banana. That banana was called bob. Bob the banana used to have fights with other fruit. His arch nemesis was Oscar the orange. Oscar was a very orange orange. He was so orange that everyone else was jealous. Bob the banana wasn't very yellow. He was kind of yellow with dark splotches on. That is why Bob used to fight the other fruit. H…
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Once there was a boy.
A very young boy.
He never really had a family.
Or even a hope.
Once he met a rabbit in the woods. But this wasn't just any rabbit. This rabbit had a hope. He had a family. He had the things the boy lacked.
This struck the boy as strange.
Why should this rabbit have the things that he so longed for?
Why should there be boys in the world like himself that lacked family? Lacked hope?
The rabbit found the boy strange as well. He decided, without any particular thought, to bring the boy home to his warren.
The day was cool. It was fall and the leaves had just begun to depart their branches. The boy strolled idly behind the rabbit, not quite wanting to follow, not quite wanting to lose the rabbit in the ins and outs of bush and trunk.
They arrived presently at the base of a very large tree. The boy stopped, several feet shy of the tangle of roots. The rabbit looked up at him and gave him a slight nod, as if sensing the tension in the boy's shoulders, his reticence, his disbelief.
The rabbit gestured to the roots. Through the tangle, the boy detected a slit of light emerging and caught the whiff of something nice. Was that tea?
Hemingway was apparently famous for his philosophy of write first, edit later. A friend of mine calls this "downdraft, updraft." I've found the practice of simply downdrafting as quickly as possible can be EXTREMELY productive. You then have a lot of raw material to work with and cut during the updraft phase.
And, yes, the most dangerous writing app.
The idea is that it is easier to edit once done, so it is important to get everything out quickly and then go back and edit.
Edit: Someone should come up with an Atom plugin that does the same.
This is a test, I'm looking at this app, seeing if it's worth my time. So far, nothing impressive. This thing is supposed to be timing me, I have to type for 5 minutes. Or should I say 'write' instead of 'type'. Lets see: oui[fjrea'prjtpro paojfa'mypiQWHBHVA It did NOT object to that, so I could in theory just monkey-bang on the keyboard for the next two/three minutes and it would be happy. Hmmm... 73 words by 'hmmm'…