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I must say, I find the experience curious to say the least. It prompted me to write something, and I immediately got frustrated that my text was gone, followed by a feeling of "well, it was ephemeral anyway" and then finding the reader mode and say "hmmm, does that take away from the experience?". In any case, I might come back to this every now and then, nice work.

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Thank you for trying it, and for staying long enough to find the reader mode.

The frustration at the start is real. It doesn't fully go away. But for me, it slowly became something else — a feeling of gently letting go of what I'd written.

I thought hard about the reader mode. For long-form writing, an app where you can never look back is just too limiting. In the end, I decided to keep both.

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