2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44
If there were contests for the title of the laziest life hacker, I'm sure I would take one of the prizes. Like any of you, I always lack motivation, and since my work is related to the texts, then, to paraphrase, you can say that I lack a good kick to make me write. But I still found an effective remedy and I want to share it with you.
Everyone has heard and probably tried various Zen editors with a minimalistic interface, nice background music and all sorts of distraction-free things. I can say with confidence that their approach does not work for real lazy people who cannot be punched by anything. For such, tougher measures are needed.
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The Flowstate app follows a completely different philosophy and changes the carrot for the stick. To force you to write, it simply takes and removes all of the typed text if you do nothing for five seconds. Hard? Yes! But effective. I wrote this article using Flowstate and spent much less time on it than usual.
Everything works very simply: choose the duration of the working session (from 5 to 60 minutes), font style (five typefaces to choose from) and start writing. Once the timer is running, you have no choice but to complete the job. Stop and the text will immediately fade and disappear after five seconds. You cannot save while the timer is running. You cannot copy the text either: the copy option does not work. The only option is to write.
After the session is over, the text will be automatically saved and will appear in the list of notes. There you can edit it, change the font, layout, export using the standard Share menu, or just copy and paste wherever you want. Flowstate has no settings as such, there is a sorting option, a good reference describing the philosophy of the application, and, in fact, that's it.
The iOS version has similar functionality and allows you to do the same things with the same convenience. If you have an external keyboard, the iPad automatically turns into a killer text-writing tool. The main advantage is document syncing, which works almost seamlessly: everything you write on the Mac instantly appears on the iPad and iPhone.
Flowstate can be recommended not only to chronic lazy people who procrastinate for days on end and constantly disrupt deadlines, but also to quite ordinary users who just sometimes need a “magic pendel”. For all its unusualness, this approach works.
As for the price of Flowstate, there are no complaints about the desktop version: it costs like all other text editors for Mac. But the price of an iOS application could be a little less.
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