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Thanks for sharing. Are thoughtwriter or tersewriter useful in that workflow?

For the blogging app, the goal is really to encourage daily thinking and writing, not necessarily to create the best source of deep content.

I do think many long articles should actually be short articles, though. You can say a lot in 450 words.

Per-day pricing seems less attractive to me now. I'm starting to think apps should be pay-for-value, not per-per-use. So, I agree that a yearly or monthly licence/subscription might be better.

I was surprised people found the prompts so useful, so I'm focusing more on that next. I think I'll create a dedicated site with a wide variety of prompts next. Should be fun!

Ha! I'll keep Slack in mind. Let me know if you come across any prompts you'd like to add.

Ha! That's an admirably simple solution. Not quite a full replacement, but it gets you surprisingly far. :)

Trying is necessary but not sufficient. Many don't try, though, so I think it's a simple, useful recommendation.

Thanks for sharing. Perhaps it's better to make the free version have more (all?) the features, and then charge for having more than one drawing. It's a bit hard to commit to paying for a service before I've been able to use it successfully. A pro account is required to move items around, for instance, which makes it difficult to see what it would be like to use the full version of the tool.

It's a bit like a rubber-duck debugger. You open it up, describe your problem, think about things for a while. You might even pretend to interview yourself, say.

The things you write will be messy, and probably not worth keeping. So, this is a space where you can write those things with the expectation that you'll throw away what you wrote, except for the few things that matter.

I don't know how common this form of writing is. Many people describe writing as a process of clarifying ideas, but I think they usually mean writing for an audience, as with a blog.

Real persistence (not just localstorage) is something I might add, perhaps as a paid feature.

The whiteboarding analogy isn't quite right, since the tool isn't for drawing (and no drawing features are currently planned). It's the whiteboarding workflow that I'm intending to copy (mess around, get some good ideas, then erase the board).

Good idea on branding. I think I'll try it out!

For freeform stuff (usually website mockups), I'll usually just grab a piece of paper or use Inkscape.

Inkscape is probably a decent tool for thinking (at least if you're already familiar with it), since you can zoom in and out on an infinite canvas, draw and type things, etc.

With tersewriter, I'm excited by the idea of creating a platform between Twitter and Medium. It'd have a 300 word minimum and a 450-word maximum. That way, every post is substantial, but focused on just one idea. My main motivation is to create a tool that gets me thinking and writing every day. I figure the word limit makes posting less overwhelming, as with Twitter.

Yeah. I've been thinking a lot about how to monetize the different apps. Together? Separate? What to offer for free, and what to offer as a paid premium. One idea (crazy?) is to charge per day of use, almost like AWS. You'd get 10 days of free use (of use, not just calendar days), and then pay 10-50 cents per day of use. That'd make it nearly impossible to spend a dime on the suite unless it really created a lot of value for you.