Flowdrafter
Write first drafts faster by not editing as you go
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Matt Collins

Flowdrafter - Write faster by not editing as you go

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A (weird-at-first!) free tool to help you write more productively by preventing you from editing as you go. Instead, get your first draft written as quickly as possible. Once you have a first draft, you can then edit and refine it as you like.

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Matt Collins
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I've created this free tool as a way to help people write more productively. If you're like me, you edit too much. It's not a good use of time. Instead, you're better off getting a first draft down as quickly as possible, then refining it from there. This tool helps you do just that. It does a couple of things: 1) It prevents you from editing anything – you can't go back and delete or modify words or characters. 2) It hides what you've already written. So if there are mistakes, you won't linger on them or fret about them. All in all, it gets you to your first draft faster. Once you've got your first draft written, you can export it to another tool to edit and improve it. Give it a try! It seems weird at first but can be super useful!
Hrishi Mittal
Learnetto
@mattcollinsuk Love this, Matt! It's such a fun tool.
Matt Collins
Maker
@hamza_afzal_butt Thanks Hamza. Great suggestions! The tool doesn't have those things at the moment but I could see them being useful.
Matt Collins
Maker
@hrishio Thanks Hrishi!
Aman Sharma
@mattcollinsuk Hello there 👋🏻, You can also add a grammar checker. Or paraphrasing tool.. Also a voice typing like google docs..✅
Matt Collins
Maker
@aman_sharma71 Thanks for taking a look and for the ideas, Aman!
Shajin KP
DesignLumo
Great tool, What i would say is that to bring an paid feature where users can finalise them by ai. ( multiple variations) And let them copy that to clipboard
Matt Collins
Maker
@shajin Thanks Shajin! That's a great suggestion.
Ashit Vora
IntroJoy
Congrats on the launch @mattcollinsuk. I'm curious - how did you come up with this approach? Was there any specific insight or feedback that led to it?
Matt Collins
Maker
@ashitvora Thanks Ashit! The initial inspiration was that I was looking for things to build to help promote my wife's writing coaching business and asked Claude.ai to tell me what problems writers commonly face. This was one of the things Claude mentioned: "I keep editing as I write, and it's taking me forever to make progress. I'll spend an entire writing session perfecting one paragraph."
Julian Götze
I wonder how you ended up building this 😁 But in retrospect it makes sense, cool idea!
Matt Collins
Maker
@juliangoetze Thanks Julian! A lot of the inspiration actually came from Claude.ai - I asked it "For authors who might hire a writing coach, what are 10 problems they might have, as they would describe them?" and one of the things it suggested was this: "I keep editing as I write, and it's taking me forever to make progress. I'll spend an entire writing session perfecting one paragraph."
Terrence Kelleman
Hey Matt, I am really curious about this. I love writing because it slows down my thinking and I often will turn a word mid sentence to find new significance that I didn't have in mind when I started (like this sentence). However I'm often guilty of craming a lot of ideas into one sentence and maybe this could help me.
Matt Collins
Maker
@terrence_kelleman Thanks for the thoughts, Terrence! I hope you find it useful.
Miguel Cemiller
Tempstr
@mattcollinsuk I love the concept! ❤️
Pablo Velez
What an interesting concept! I'm not a fan of tools that limit the user but I can see your point here. Definitely it would come handy when writing documentation to avoid entering the infinite loop of reviewing previous sections before finishing the whole document. Congrats on the launch! 🚀
Tanner Thomsen
I would love to see some logic for spell correcting and sentence recognition. For someone like myself who makes a good amount of typing mistakes, it proves difficult to work with. Otherwise, I love the idea!
Matt Collins
Maker
@tannerthomsen Thanks Tanner. I love that idea (I make a lot of typing mistakes, too!) I may experiment with introducing a bit of AI assistance and see how it feels.
Gaurav Singhal
Pocket Hansei
I see this is particularly useful for: - Breaking through writer's block - First drafts of creative writing - Brainstorming sessions - Personal journaling - Situations where quantity over quality is initially more important However, for technical writing or formal documents where accuracy is crucial from the start, this might not be the best approach.
Rami Alhamad
I know a friend that could totally use this. Clever.
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