A distraction-free writing environment
17 points by andrewmd5
17 points by andrewmd5
Distraction-free; includes an AI chat.
I never claimed it ships with it, because it doesn't. Bridging the OS infrastructure (foundational models) with a C terminal program to demonstrate the flexibility of the architecture as a proof of concept is not a drawback.
Extending that built-in primitive to provide networking capabilities so I personally can have it pull citations for me without a browser, also not a distraction.
And it’s left out of releases. Snarky.
Please stop with the constant self-promotion - it’s against this site’s policy.
What “constant self-promotion?”
Your last 15 submissions have been authored by you and 19 of your 25 comments posted have been on your own stories. You've basically been treating Lobsters as a free comment section on your work and have not been engaging with the rest of the community.
https://lobste.rs/about you don't participate outside your own submissions and are wayyyy off the rule of thumb suggested there
I see. I post long-form content every 3-4 months on unique problems & their solutions, but if we’re over indexing on that as self-promotion and feel what I share brings down the overall quality of the site and is not useful, I’ll refrain from submitting any further personal content here in the future.
Apologies.
You don't need to be defensive or passive aggressive. You are posting links to your own content, which is not inherently wrong, but as pointed out you have essentially no interaction outside of those posts and comments on those posts.
It's hard to see this as evidence of you being interested in contributing to the community, rather than simply using it as a tool to promote your own writing.
I’m being neither of those things; I’ve recognized the criticism and accepted it. There is no need to inject emotional characterization into my response.
I disagree that I don’t engage outside my own post, because I do, but the fact remains if I post too much of my own content then I should allow that content to find life outside it’s vacuum and it can be shared here by others if they find it valuable.
You clearly aren’t being defensive, you misunderstood the site’s rules and owned up to it. I don’t know why the parent is attacking your motives (which is itself against the site’s rules—ironic). Sorry you had to deal with that.
It’s alright, the internet of today is one where everyone is trying to market or promote something, so people being frustrated at the surface level of something seemingly being self-promotion is understandable.
I just do it for the love of the game, and because these intimate link aggregation sites are a great way to find other creative & smart individuals to collaborate with.
Hmm, I think I misread your response - especially "Apologies" which I remember reading as (not what it actually said) "acknowledged" which has a distinctly different feel in this context.
So I apologize (irony right?) for labeling this as passive aggressive.
I do stand by the latter: your participation is disproportionately tied to your own posts, so much so that other people noticed. I noticed when I saw the post, and would have just hidden the post if I hadn't seen @tumdum and @sknebel's comments that showed that I was not alone in noticing this pattern.
There are numerous folk on lobsters who post links to their own content, but that is not the majority of their interaction with the community - which is the issue @brudish was highlighting above.
As a rule of thumb, self-promo should be less than a quarter of one's stories and comments.
I want to emphasize that self-promotion is not prohibited. But there are rules.
This looks like interesting, and I'm game to try yet-another markdown app for writing, distraction free or not.
So lets try it out:
dawn docs/v1-checklist.md (just a docs file I have in a current project)?, no help...I hit ESC, and get back to the main menu thingesc hint in the lower right if this would not be helpful?esc again, and i'm dumped back to my shell, no edits applied to the file. no warning on unsaved edits.Maybe I missed some core ux flow here, but this just doesn't seem, uh, right? I would say refine the 'open a doc and make edits' UX flow before shipping this to the world. Even for a distraction free, simple writing app, "open previous draft and continue writing" is a pretty core workflow.
...to be clear, I'm not trying to pick on your app here.
I was a bit sad at the first few responses giving u grief about AI or meta-things with no real engagement with the actual submission. Which looks neat, hope you carry-on with it.
Thanks for the feedback! Because I originally wrote this for free writing, I had it save when the timer ran out. There was also some confusing Ux because I copied the input file, but there’s no indication of that.
I’ve changed it to auto-save every 2 seconds and removed the copying so you can edit in-place; i’ll get previous sessions added to the history for documents not stored in the dawn directory.