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Then it should not allow apps to ask for permissions they don't need. Just a thought..

Thanks for the suggestions! It's right everyone has a different view for losing weight, but I found that a lot of people don't get the basics.

Great idea for dynamic suggestions. Thanks!

We don't consider it as a short-term feature, but it's in our plans to make integrations with Wordpress / Ghost in the upcoming months.

I agree, writing or exercising every single day can turn into more bad than good in the long run. I think 4 days per week is ideal.

I'm using Typora too when I have to write something in Markdown. Though it is limited to being a markdown editor and it's not a platform that would help me to focus on writing more and frequently.

I agree that writing daily doesn't necessarily makes you a better writer, but usually it helps a lot. Also, writing your thoughts as often as possible gives you more sense of clarity.

We're early yet, but we have in plan for the next weeks word analysis, writing clarity, readability and sentiment analysis.

Hello, Marco! If there is anything that you want to be improved or you're missing something, please just drop us a line!

Although there are many other free-distraction tools, we believe WriteNext differentiates from them. Our main focus is to help you write more often and better by creating a writing habit. It is not enough to have a distraction-free tool if you don't return to write there daily.

Thanks for the feedback. We've added those platforms that we believe are most popular for the majority of web users. In my opinion, the best solution would be something similar to what Solid (https://solid.mit.edu/) proposes. Unfortunately, they don't have much traction yet.

The encryption key is generated dynamically and it is not stored together with the encrypted content, thus in case of any leakage the words that were written are safe. The writing is decrypted and shown decrypted only to the writer itself and our team doesn't have access to see the words you've written.

There was a quick update that we put and the server was down for around 1 minute. I think you accessed just at that moment. Sorry for the inconvenience, please try now.

Absolutely, the text you write is encrypted using aes-256 before being stored on our servers. We're also considering allowing an option to encrypt once more with a custom password set by the writer - the problem with this custom encryption is that if you lose the password you're not able to get your words back.

That's what Tim Ferris said, right?

Thanks for pointing that out, it's updated now!

Are you asking about book publishing or web blogging platforms (e.g. Wordpress / Medium / Ghost)?

Absolutely, once you start you get momentum and it is difficult to stop. I wrote just today over 2000 words and I planed just for 500. That's why we don't show the writing goal anywhere on the writing page, so that you don't have any limit while writing. I will check the podcast, thanks for sharing!

Haven't thought about this similarity - it's a nice one!

Thanks for the feedback, noted!

What still astounds me after 2 months of researching this space is that every day I learn about a new way people store what they write. The other day, I was talking with someone about how he stores what he writes in an Excel file. It's like Abraham Maslow said "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail".

What were the things that stayed in the way of writing consistently?

Thanks for the comment! Yes, it is web-based for now. We have in plan to make a desktop app and also add offline writing. The writing records are encrypted before being stored in the database.

We've looked into multiple options for displaying the writing activity and that Github like contribution chart was our favorite one. It's a neat way of showing how active you've been while doing something: writing code or writing words. :)

While it uses a web text editor and the editing experience is important, it is far from being that.

We're focused on creating a product that helps you to write more and stay fully engaged in the writing process. Yes, it comes with goals that you can customize and some gamification elements that will help you write more than before.

Thanks! Is there any particular feature that you would want to see in the product? Which is the thing that keeps you engaged to write?

We removed the Pricing/Premium page because we do not intend to make any of the current features paid. What you sign up for is free. Writing in the current mode will always be free!

That is one of the core reasons we started WriteNext. Here is the blog post we wrote before doing any work on the product: https://blog.writenext.io/your-writing-facilitator/.

> We live in an era where we’re all publishers, we’re all writing something because we all have easy access to a publishing platform. It doesn’t matter if it’s a book, an article, a blog, an email or a personal journal. There’s a lot of content created daily and the problem we are all facing is the noise it comes with it.

> In our vision, the first step to changing the content’s quality is to change the writing process. Yet, there’s no writing tool powerful enough to cope with this problem.

It's free and we'll keep it all free for the next at least 3 months. We're thinking about a premium model. At this moment we don't know yet which features will be included in the premium, because we want the basic features that help you to turn writing into a daily habit to remain free.

It will have Spanish! We're starting with English, and Spanish is the next one.

True about procrastination! We've been focusing more on the product itself which is after login and missed a few (maybe more) things on the presentation. We're on it, now!