First Draft helps your writing flow by being more like a typewriter than a Mac word processor

I recently wrote about Ilys, a Web app focused on helping writers write rather than edit. It was all about creative flow over granular perfectionism. First Draft is a Mac app with a similar goal but a slightly less extreme approach to achieving it. Unlike Ilys, First Draft allows you to see what you’ve already written but still limits your ability to edit. You can edit the current word you’re writing while it’s orange, but after you’ve pressed the space bar, any edits will be marked by strikethroughs in the text. The idea is that writing on a computer should…
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