I've been using Flowstate on Mac for this. It certainly forces some sense of pressure, but is a great way for scoping out an initial draft of a blog post which I can then rewrite with more care and attention.
The Most Dangerous Writing App
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Consider using org-mode [1] as your primary word processor and committing revisions to git. I recommend org-mode because org documents are saved as plain text and therefore can be easily diffed. org-mode can also be exported to many formats [2]. If you are concerned about how the look and feel of writing in plain text might impact your experience authoring a document, there are lots of editor specific tutorials for b…
Thanks. I mainly write in Geany, these days.
Well then you are already writing in plain text. Why not use git for committing revisions rather than making backup copies on the file system?
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#63Feels like playing a game or watching an interactive, in which you need to make a choice against a clock. Just... in a more open-ended word.
Or as writing homework when being totally sleep deprived, and any break means a risk of falling asleep (blurry graphics reinforce it a lot).
Or writing an important email, when there is 2% of battery life.
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#64This 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.
exactly the reason why my autosave period is set to 1min.
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#66I am learning drawing. A lot of people who are beginners to drawing experience a block where they struggle to put on the first line on paper, or when they do it they are not satisfied and erase it and start again. You end up not doing anything. That's why in beginner's classes you often get exercises to help you overcome that. Such as covering the whole page with scribbles first and drawing on that. Or timed exercises where you have to finish your drawing in five minutes or a minute or less. The point is to get one accustomed to doing things and doing them again and to realise the first attempt is often not as good as you want and can.
I think digital tools make this kind of block even harder because it's so easy to draw something, undo and try again, and the fact you're not wasting film frames, paper or paint makes it harder to get things done? This is certainly my experience with writing.
I think this is a useful tool to make you think of this and also help you overcome that kind of block with writing.
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#673 minutes typing: This is me writing a comment for this app using hardcore mode which right now I realise is having the text co clompletely blurred and it is quite hard indeed I can barely come back a word if I write a type. Although it doesnt seem to be based onmy typing speed so I guess if you are good at typing it's not as bad as if you are bad at it. Well I don't what to say more than that the interface is nice a…
Wow I’m typing on my phone and I can’t see anything. I suppose if I don’t keep typing this will be all read I mean deleted. Oh well. Such is life. It reminds me of free writing. It is a form of free writing that is enforced I guess that’s useful. For things like writers block and what not. But what am I to say? Nice product? I guess it’s a cool proof of concept. But I don’t see myself using it. It is more…
Something's seriously wrong with your browser/encoding.
It seems all apostrophes in your message are replaced by ’ (a with hat, euro symbol, TM symbol).
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#68This 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...
Once, when I was using inDesign, I unlearned this behavior. Saving would take about 10 seconds.
3 hours later...
Now, I save whenever I am happy with a single edit.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks. I mainly write in Geany, these days.
Well then you are already writing in plain text. Why not use git for committing revisions rather than making backup copies on the file system?
It is an interesting idea. But I'm more comfortable with stuff staying local, unless I explicitly put it online.
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#70In Neal Stephenson's novel Cryptonomicon, one of the characters is tied to a cabinet containing a bomb and a laptop sitting on top of it. The character is then told that the bomb will explode the moment he stops typing.