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Here’s my biggest critique of Enso: It’s not very easy to send myself a reminder when I’m back at my computer to use it.

Content: i’m currently on my mobile phone and I absolutely adore the idea of Enso (funny enough I’m currently holding & feeding my infant named Enzo). I would like to write with it and try it when I don’t have an infant on my lap but that requires me remembering it and looking it up when back on my laptop and ready to write something.

I added my email on the mobile sign-up but frankly I don’t really want a mobile app as 60% of my long-form mobile writing is done via voice to text and edited later. What I’d like is a “remind me via email to give Enso a try” signup that says “hey, this is a reminder to try Enso… The flow focused, low editing app for creative writing” or something like that.

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> remind me via email to give Enso a try

I like this. Thanks! Email notifications nowadays are a bit of a pain to set up, since they need to contain the physical address of the sender in the footer, so this is a piece of work I _always_ keep postponing. I was even considering dropping that form completely. Maybe I could generate a calendar event with a reminder instead? This way I won't have to store any data about the user and I could probably piggy back on the phone UX when it comes to reminders. Just thinking aloud here.

> as 60% of my long-form mobile writing is done via voice to text and edited later.

Yeah, your description matches my own usage patterns. And, I've reached a similar conclusion. Mobile-first Ensō would probably have two modes: keyboard + dictation.

Go get convertkit. It's bloody awesome, cheap, and they even have an address of their own that you can use if you don’t wqnt to share your physical address.

The sequenced auto responders that they have boost my open and click rates as much as 300% and allow for some truly powerful/complex programmatic features that anyone who's on HN would love.

>they even have an address of their own that you can use if you don’t wqnt to share your physical address.

Cheers, will give it a shot! (or just get the damn PO Box)

You want a sign-up on the site that just sends you an email and tells you to use it?

You could also just send yourself an email, you know.

Or, if you're fancy, use a to-do list that you can access both on your mobile and your computer.

(To be fair, I recall the brain-fog that comes with having an infant.)

Fair enough, but I still think the user could benefit from a gentle nudge here:)

It's a user experience thing. Too often product designers (myself especially) think that a user should remember/do an action/etc. However, I believe most failures are design failures VS user errors and that a better designed system could/should strive to fix them.

So, yes, I could use a Todo list or some other solution to remind myself. But that inherently assumes this rises to the level of neurally important... which trying out a new tool rarely is.

That's why I offered a marketing/growth idea to better help passers-by remember to try it out in a super clean UX way that integrates with their workflow.

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