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TypWrittr – Inspirational, Minimalistic, Distraction-free Text editor
- O_W_Grant 12y agoA fresh spin in online book writing. typWrittr is designed to be as minimalistic as possible, but features high customizability, cloud storage and "Inspirational presets". Feels like you've been teleported into story with your good old typewriter.
- seren 12y agoYou should try to add an open demo, and only request an email sign up when the user try to save or export the file (or a prompt after X minutes of use). I am not sure people are ready to sign up just to try a text editor.
- shrikant 12y agoA couple of questions: 1. Was it a conscious choice to only offer up monospaced fonts? 2. I can't find a way to close the "cabinet" after I open it to access my list of notes: is this a bug, or am I missing something obvious? 3. Any change you have the source code up somewhere? Thanks btw, looks nice!
- O_W_Grant 12y ago1. yes, monospaced fonts reminds me ones on typewriters. 2. just press the same button that opens cabinet. 3. in public repo - no (
- marcoms 12y agoAre the mono font's hard-coded? i.e. font-family: "custom font" vs. font-family: "monospace"
- O_W_Grant 12y agothey are preloaded on demand. Cannot reply more, but I get your point. No, fonts are used only that are defined by me, but I your idea of using system-defined monospace font sound as 'feature to add' to me =)
- marcoms 12y agoright, but does it use the default monospace fonts set by the user or do you set your own? For example, my default monospace font is Source Code Pro - will it use my font or your own (if any)
- seqizz 12y agoOh sweets, needs sign-in.. ctrl-w
- zackhall 12y agoAgreed - nothing more annoying than a product that wants my credentials before I can even try it out, see a screenshot, or anything else that might make me want it. le sigh
- hliyan 12y agoInteresting. I would actually consider something like this for my current writing project, provided there is: 1. Some means of account recovery. I didn't notice a forgot password link. 2. Way to bulk import and export files. I will have my own primary storage. 3. Save the font, color, background and border settings as my own presets 4. Change the background without changing (3). A graphical writing prompt for each different scene is useful, but having to change the rest of the formatting each time is an inconvenience. 5. Make it HTTPS
- joejayanth 12y agoexited to share?? excited to share!
- O_W_Grant 12y agofixed that, thank you!
- yoanizer 12y agoTo be honest I never really understood this need for minimalistic text editors. I can understand if all you know is MS Word, but when I need distraction free editing, I just launch Vim, open a file in my dropbox, and switch to full screen, done. No need for 10,000 projects like this (FocusWriter, WriteMonkey, WriteRoom, and whatever else). (and as everyone else already mentioned, don't start by asking people their email).
- emiunet 12y agoI second this. Plus, I ssh into my own server, tmux att and launch vim there. It is available wherever with Internet connection for me.
- joejayanth 12y agoexited to share?? excited to share!
- newobj 12y agostrlen("Minimalistic") > strlen("Minimalist") Also, http://www.typwrittr.com/screenshots/scr2.png http://www.typwrittr.com/screenshots/scr2.png "And I am exited to share it with you"
- O_W_Grant 12y agominimalistic sounds better a bit.. to me. Screenshots are fixed now, thanks!
- jevgeni 12y agoUlysses. Why anything else? It is: - minimalist - has cloud storage - configurable - pleasant to work in Boom!
- donniezazen 12y agoI was thinking aren't all text-editors are minimalistic and distraction free. I use KWrite and Emacs. Emacs is awesome for text-editing. There is nothing in my Emacs expect an empty space to write.
- O_W_Grant 12y agoThey sure are in some way or another. But 'distraction-free', as a term for editor (and, as well, editor for writers) means ability to go full-screen, so nothing can distract you (like news in another tab). But having a blank paper wasn't what I wanted, I wanted distraction-free editor with nice picture on background, like space nebula when I write scifi novel about space travelling and galactic battles. TypWrittr is a synergy of it.
- paulojreis 12y agoDistraction-free and minimalistic, with background photography? I mean... not even the text area has a solid background, as it blends with the photography! It's noisy as hell, quite the opposite of what you are selling. I'm sorry for the criticism, and I do support the initiative, but please try to align your product with your conceptual premises. Validate it, empirically. You claim it to be distraction-free? Try to get some metrics and subjective reviews, test with users. Also, you can stand on the shoulder of giants. There's literature about attention, even about typing.
- O_W_Grant 12y agobackgrounds do not distract, at least me, but they do help to dive deeply into story, you just have to find one. And in case you really want to have a blank white paper with black ink - just set it via preferences.
- paulojreis 12y agoI'm sorry, but the background (behind the text) is essentially noise. It will impact your reading which will, of course, impact typing. And about the "at least me" argument... I'm all for personal inspiration and taste in personal projects, and applaud you for following what you like. But you're trying to provide distraction-free writing for others, so you have to consider their characteristics, you have to consider what science knows about attention, reading and typing - not your taste. I've noticed that you replied elsewhere that your typographic choice was also motivated by personal taste. Both noisy backgrounds and typography will deeply impact how your product performs in providing distraction-free writing. I think you can balance your personal touch with improvements in the fundamental dimensions of your product.
- O_W_Grant 12y agothat is why there's a variety of customization options present - feel free to customize it as you wish. Also, there are two "blank" inspirational presets already build in, much inspired by blank black old terminals.
- Grue3 12y agoIs it intentional that "cloud" is omitted from the submission title? Because I bet many would've never clicked on it otherwise. I mean, a text editor that you need to sign in into? How crazy. I'll stick with Emacs.
- O_W_Grant 12y agoIt's a limit of 80 chars per title (
- PauloManrique 12y agoGreat product. Any chance to implement saving files to dropbox?
- O_W_Grant 12y agothanks, Paulo, I will consider it as a feature request, and I will research if it is possible.
- Darky 12y ago@O_W_Grant : where are these backgrounds coming from ?