Ask HN: An Application That Needs To Exist

5 pointsby xamvor 14 Jahren8 comments

a really simple text editor that starts the second you wake your laptop/desktop and doesn't close until you've written 500 words. here's the premise:

-good motivator to get your writing done -it's like opening up a blank notebook every time. you shouldn't start the morning with writing, start it with writing. (maybe it only greets you in the morning) -most of the time, when i open my laptop, the only thing on my mind is what i want to write.

9 comments

semisightvor 14 Jahren

Why don't you just leave a program like Ommwriter running every night before you close your laptop? (Assuming you have a mac--I'm sure there are other fullscreen no-frills writing programs for linux/windows).

xamvor 14 Jahren

I'd like it to be automatic so that every time I open the laptop, it's open.

AznHisokavor 14 Jahren

Actually I got a Mac, and it opens this text editor of mine everytime I start it.. for some reason I can't get it to not do that. So I'd pay for the reverse solution.

btownvor 14 Jahren

Ah, the feature that turned into a bug. Lion automatically saves the windows of any application when it's quit, and restores those window when you next start the app. So to get it to go away, close the window, then quit; don't just quit right away.

tree_of_itemvor 14 Jahren

How about a cron job that opens your editor in the morning?

xamvor 14 Jahren

Not smart enough at computers to figure that out...

Zenstvor 14 Jahren

It already exists and is called a long password.

sprobertsonvor 14 Jahren

Ha, it would be cool if there was a password prompt that was actually an essay prompt that did linguistic analysis to see if you were the correct person.

[deleted]vor 14 Jahren