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Not saying this tool is bad or won’t help people, but: 1. I spend a large majority of my day reading or writing text. Emails, documentation, white papers, comm
by subjectsigma 4y ago
Not saying this tool is bad or won’t help people, but:
1. I spend a large majority of my day reading or writing text. Emails, documentation, white papers, comments in code, Slack messages, texts, PowerPoint. The absolute last thing I want to do when I get home is write more.
2. I type fast and can churn out like a thousand words no problem. It is significantly harder to a) pick an interesting topic and b) form a thought that is coherent, accessible, interesting, and overall worth reading.
I imagine people who do this spend years writing stuff that nobody (not even themselves) cares to read
- subjectsigma 4y agoJust the thought of an interesting twist on the topic: a daily writing tool with a “spaced repetition” twist. You seed the tool with a list of writing prompts, e.g. “Write a list of ten things you think would improve your life.” Then, a few days later, the tool randomly selects one of the prompts and asks you to write 500 words on it. A month later the same prompt is re-introduced without showing you the previous writing. Prompts can be interleaved with one another so you are writing about a different thing every day. It happens again and again until at some point you are presented with all the snippets you have written about the topic and are asked to choose whether you would like to keep the writing in the pool or not. If you do then you are only given that text every day to edit until you decide to finish. If you choose to not keep it then all texts associated with that topic are archived and you keep getting differs prompts. Good idea or bad idea?