The cursor of on this digital typewriter moves continuously while you write

[boingboing]

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[Melizmatic]

Sounds distracting.

[ficuswhisperer]

[anon61221983]

Kind of fun, actually…

[gridsleep1]

I have no idea how this steady state typewriter could be used for anything. May as well use a word processor with the screen turned off. The result is completely illegible. Perhaps the developer thinks it may work on some sort of subconscious level, but toward what I do not know. The point of writing is to communicate, not simply to “let it out.” Leave that for the EST and cognitive sessions. If you can’t read what you’ve written, a week later, then, as Mel Brooks put it, you’re just jerking off.

[kmoser]

This just forces me to type slowly, which means I forget the ideas that are streaming through my head. So, epic fail!

[CoffeeStar]

Couldn’t work out how to look at the jumble I wrote. Can you somehow stretch it out afterwards?

[cepheus42]

Yeah, I ran into the same issue. At the speed I type, the letters all pile on top of each other and the text is completely illegible. Not really useful for “stream of consciousness” style writing.

[p96]

The cursor is cursed to roam the page forever.

[Melizmatic]

@cepheus42

Not really useful

That was my second thought, after how distracting it would be.

[knoxblox]

Ya know, the Gboard app on my tablet already does this for me.

[csilvest]

I’m missing something. Seems to require really slow typing, which I found annoying and distracting. And I’m a poor typist, reduced to 2 fingers on each hand. Perhaps it works at much faster speeds?

I’m intrigued by this “stream of consciousness” writing thing though. I think it’s something I started doing ~6 months ago. I became frustrated with losing thoughts in the decision-making for the “proper” place to put down a thought. Blog post? Twitter? What folder? Excel or Notion or, or…

Solved that problem by writing everything in to a Wordpad .RTF file named “cedric’s-stream-of-consciousness.rtf”. Including this reply, which I typed fully in that file first, then copy-pasta’d into the reply form here.

I even have a batch file that opens this file at login and re-opens it every hour; this brings it back to focus, reminding me to write into it. Which is a little annoying, but really helpful.