That's not the kind of "work" I'm referring to. Actually, I'm mystified at how you can even call any of that work. The physical and cognitive load of reaching a

That's not the kind of "work" I'm referring to. Actually, I'm mystified at how you can even call any of that work. The physical and cognitive load of reaching any site, anywhere, is already small, and vanishingly so when it's a site you use frequently. A new browser window or tab is something you probably do dozens of times a day. Think about it: the site is intended to be used daily--anybody that actually 'buys in' is going to have that bookmarked, shortcut-ed, homepage-ed, or at least in their autocomplete. And logging into Facebook? A typical Facebook user is never not logged in. Where is the work coming in? I'm sorry to expend so many words on that, but it really does seem strange to me that someone in this day and on this site would regard going to a website as a lot of work. But to my original point: I'm talking about the work of actually making the thing. The parent post specifically refers to "WriteRoom/OmmWriter plus a scoring script" as the alternative. Where does that script come from? Who maintains it? Whose computer does it run on? Who is responsible for ensuring that it continues to work? The answer to all of those is either "you, yourself" or "someone else". There are occasions why "you, yourself" are the best person for the job, but quite often there is no particular need to waste your attention on a problem that already has an adequate solution for. Sometimes (just as with cooking) you may even get more satisfying results that way. In this case, the author is selling you on a specific habit with a tool specifically tailored for the problem of incorporating and maintaining it. If you are interested in that problem at all, the attention-conserving approach would be to try that tool first, before reimplementing your own partial solution.