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Does the article say which website or tool was used to relearn to type, did I miss it? I've got this journey (hopefully not all of it) ahead of me and am looking for ways to aid the transition.

Well, there was Chatroulette: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatroulette

Mmhh..looks like there still _is_ Chatroulette (NSFW!) https://chatroulette.com

Hah! I built something similar (but very amateur) as my master thesis project: https://procrastinative.ninja/2015/02/19/sensation-suit/

I always wanted to use TENS and EMS but my professors were a bit cautious. Anyway I've learned a lot and it was a really fun project. I still have the suit and have currently lent it to a fellow student who want's to survey if and how it increases VR immersion. Very happy to see another professional go at this! Good luck guys!

The nested cards are definitely a great tool to create the structure. Even after the initial outline, I came back to them every now and then to re-evaluate the logic flow or to place new sub-topics that came up.

The biggest win for me was how Scrivener supports an iterative workflow. I started with keywords on the cards for what a chapter should be about, wrote a few sentences describing the keywords inside the document, added context so the sentences became paragraphs, fleshed it out and polished it. During this process I used colour labels in the outline view[1] to keep track of the state of a chapter.

All this took away the pressure to write a long, good and coherent text. I only had to increment little by little to which my brain had far less resistance. If I was stuck on a chapter or couldn't motivate myself to keep working on it, I switched to another one and do a little work here, a little work there.

Also the usual Latex applied as well: I only focussed on the content and didn't format anything properly and left placeholders for images. I used Pages (the old version with two sided layout) for the final assembly where I only had to worry about layout and not on the content.

[1]: http://www.techtoolsforwriters.com/using-labels-in-scrivener...

I only used Scrivener for my master thesis a few years ago but keep recommending it to everyone who is about to write a longer text. It's a great tool and helped me a lot to overcome writing procrastination. Very happy to see it's actively developed.

And warming up the rivers won't lead to any problems regarding their ecosystem?

Yes, exactly this. I so have to second the edit. It's exactly the same for me. I'm way more tempted to delete the app instead of buying it. Only using it for an hour and so far it has annoyed me way more than it helped me.