The digital typewriter and the unnecessarily costly pursuit of focus

Re:The digital typewriter and the unnecessarily costly pursu... by gandalfff on Friday July 15, 2022 @05:07PM (#32112823)

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.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:The digital typewriter and the unnecessarily costly pursu... by II2II on Friday July 15, 2022 @07:52PM (#32113979)

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.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:The digital typewriter and the unnecessarily costly pursu... by flobosg on Friday July 15, 2022 @05:16PM (#32112896)

I use an old Thinkpad x220 on a virtual console running micro.

[ Parent | on HN ]