6 ms·
Show HN: DontEdit – A writing tool that doesn't allow you to edit or delete
- ibopm 9y agoI found that I had the best success getting my thoughts down on the paper when I told myself not to look back and edit. So I decided to do an experiment and made a mini-webapp to do this. In the app, you can only see the current line you are typing, and you are allowed three backspaces at a time (combinations are allowed). There's also a visual of blurred text in the background to help you feel like you are achieving some progress. This was just a fun experiment, but I wanted to get some feedback to see if people actually would want to use this sort of thing.
- MrAwesomeSauce 9y agoI like the idea and love the simplicity. Not sure if I would benefit from not looking and editing as I write as I tend to do that all the time, but I'm going to try it with this and see how it pans out. Great job!
- ibopm 9y agoThanks MrAwesomeSauce! Do let me know if you have any feedback from this :)
- fiatjaf 9y agoI can edit if I type 1, backspace 3, type 1 backspace 3 and so on. But I don't like this whole thing of never editing, never looking back, move forward and break things anyway.
- ibopm 9y agoYeah, that was intentional. Maybe it's not for everyone, but I just want to say that it's not that you never edit. The point is just to get your thoughts down on the page first. I used this to write my first book and it took 48 hours. And then I spent months editing it before I published it.
- aennyta 9y agoNot a fan really, what if you are interrupted while writing and have to look back?