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Being offline helps. I've recently taken to writing on a Power Mac G5 paired with a Cinema display. Nothing fancy, just a window of TextEdit. No notifications o

Being offline helps. I've recently taken to writing on a Power Mac G5 paired with a Cinema display. Nothing fancy, just a window of TextEdit. No notifications or Internet to distract. A silent operating system running on a loud tower. My writing happy place.

flobosg 4y ago
I use an old Thinkpad x220 on a virtual console running micro.
II2II 4y ago
I did something similar in my university days, albeit wit a Macintosh IIci running System 6. With Multifinder disabled, there was a sufficiently high barrier to switching tasks that I could focus on writing.