Ask HN: An Application That *Needs* To Exist

Ask HN: An Application That Needs To Exist

Posted by xam on Friday April 27, 2012 @08:23PM
from the ask-hn dept.

a really simple text editor that starts the second you wake your laptop/desktop and doesn't close until you've written 500 words. here's the premise:

-good motivator to get your writing done -it's like opening up a blank notebook every time. you shouldn't start the morning with writing, start it with writing. (maybe it only greets you in the morning) -most of the time, when i open my laptop, the only thing on my mind is what i want to write.

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Re:Ask HN: An Application That *Needs* To Exist by semisight on Friday April 27, 2012 @10:07PM (#3901801)

Why don't you just leave a program like Ommwriter running every night before you close your laptop? (Assuming you have a mac--I'm sure there are other fullscreen no-frills writing programs for linux/windows).

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Re:Ask HN: An Application That *Needs* To Exist by xam on Saturday April 28, 2012 @12:17PM (#3903294)

I'd like it to be automatic so that every time I open the laptop, it's open.

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Re:Ask HN: An Application That *Needs* To Exist by AznHisoka on Wednesday May 09, 2012 @02:51PM (#3949959)

Actually I got a Mac, and it opens this text editor of mine everytime I start it.. for some reason I can't get it to not do that. So I'd pay for the reverse solution.

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Re:Ask HN: An Application That *Needs* To Exist by btown on Friday May 11, 2012 @07:59PM (#3962065)

Ah, the feature that turned into a bug. Lion automatically saves the windows of any application when it's quit, and restores those window when you next start the app. So to get it to go away, close the window, then quit; don't just quit right away.

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Re:Ask HN: An Application That *Needs* To Exist by tree_of_item on Friday April 27, 2012 @10:10PM (#3901804)

How about a cron job that opens your editor in the morning?

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Re:Ask HN: An Application That *Needs* To Exist by xam on Saturday April 28, 2012 @12:18PM (#3903299)

Not smart enough at computers to figure that out...

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Re:Ask HN: An Application That *Needs* To Exist by Zenst on Friday April 27, 2012 @09:43PM (#3901761)

It already exists and is called a long password.

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Re:Ask HN: An Application That *Needs* To Exist by sprobertson on Tuesday May 08, 2012 @11:05PM (#3946924)

Ha, it would be cool if there was a password prompt that was actually an essay prompt that did linguistic analysis to see if you were the correct person.

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