layman51 14 days ago

I haven’t tried it yet but it is an interesting idea for an app. My initial thoughts are: if I have something that seems to be important or significant that I wrote down near the start of my note, I would probably type gibberish or nonsense if I wanted to prevent it from being erased. Is there some way to ameliorate this situation where I would end up padding the note with fluff? My guess is to just make the timer shorter. Or maybe have some “checkpoint” for a longer timer.

Also, when it comes to handwriting, is there a way to support this input? I’ll say that a lot of left-handed writers have the opposite issue when writing with ink on paper. If they write too fast, most of them will end up smudging what they just wrote. This is not an issue on electronic writing devices of course.

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freedomben 14 days ago

Same, and I could also see myself compulsively using Ctrl+A Ctrl+C to get it on my clipboard just in case. I already do this in webforms (like on HN) because of so many years of losing my text.

I like this idea but I think it would be great if the text went into a recycle bin instead of fully gone. At least for me that would still accomplish the desired result, but I wouldn't live in fear of losing some important point because I took too long proofreading or something.

vseplet 14 days ago

Thanks for the feedback, I'll think about how to implement this beautifully in the near future!

nashashmi 13 days ago

Offer a pay service to recover stuff that was lost

vseplet 13 days ago

Do you think this will be fair?

nashashmi 13 days ago

It will remain a form of remediation to lost work. OTOH you will end up keeping lots of works of garbage value with no end date. That could be unfair.

vseplet 14 days ago

Maybe I didn't understand you, but on the sides of the timer there are buttons + and -, you can choose a time convenient for you