It's not a hard and fast rule, but see below, the fact is I get more done when I close the laptop lid :)
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It's not a hard and fast rule, but see below, the fact is I get more done when I close the laptop lid :)
Computers and phones are full of distractions. I just have problems with writing much. Maybe I should find an old typewriter
I have a manual typewriter sitting around somewhere, but that's even harder on the wrists than handwriting - maybe a nice electronic one, the IBM golfball type :D
It's a long time since I used a manual one. My parents had an ancient one that they eventually donated to a museum. I had lots of fun with that, including intentionally jamming it :) Typing on a computer is easier for me than writing. Maybe I just need something off-line to reduce the distractions
ah yes. Last year when I had a lot of writing to do and flaky internet connection, I pulled out an old ubuntu laptop and just typed into text files that I saved to dropbox folders so it synced when I did have a connection - I cut the software right down to vim and dropbox (you may have another preferred editor/cloud storage solution!) - it's a refreshing exercise in old-skool word-processing.
And oh yes, the joy of jamming the typebars and then unjamming them - simple pleasures...