Flowdrafter

Write first drafts faster by not editing as you go

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Write first drafts 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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Launch tags:Productivity•Writing•Text Editors

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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!

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2yr ago

Learnetto

@mattcollinsuk Love this, Matt! It's such a fun tool.

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2yr ago

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.

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2yr ago

Maker

@hrishio Thanks Hrishi!

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2yr ago

@mattcollinsuk Hello there 👋🏻, You can also add a grammar checker. Or paraphrasing tool.. Also a voice typing like google docs..✅

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2yr ago

Maker

@aman_sharma71 Thanks for taking a look and for the ideas, Aman!

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2yr ago

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?

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2yr ago

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."

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2yr ago

Haha this is cool. But I'm so used to backspacing :-D Maybe a timer for editing the last x words? Because small errors would make it worse for me to continue writing. I would not be able to stand the errors.

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2yr ago

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

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2yr ago

Maker

@shajin Thanks Shajin! That's a great suggestion.

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2yr ago

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!

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2yr ago

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.

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2yr ago

I sometimes do something similar which is to make the font so small I can't read, but your method is very smart!

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2yr ago

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! 🚀

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2yr ago

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