This is a clever app for creative writing: You don’t get to see what you’ve just written

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by Sindy Cator on October 29, 2015 at 6:08 pm

There are plenty of minimalist, ‘distraction-free’ writing apps out there, but Ilys is by far the most distraction-free I’ve ever seen. As the annual National Novel Writing Month (or NaNoWriMo for short) approaches, you might be looking for a tool to help you build up a longform piece of work. Ilys helps you get on with writing thanks to a simple twist: you don’t get to see what you’ve just written. At the start of a writing session, you set yourself a wordcount target and then you start typing into the void of a blank screen. You can see the last character you…