{"id":763,"date":"2010-04-06T19:22:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T09:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/?p=763"},"modified":"2010-04-06T19:22:40","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T09:22:40","slug":"distraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/distraction\/","title":{"rendered":"Distraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Typing this text into an app called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ommwriter.com\/\">Ommwriter<\/a>. An interesting way to work.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never given full screen writing applications much thought, but it really does help to remove the distractions of a modern computer. Maybe the iPad, in that it will only show one application at once, will work the same way. Right now, if I can monitor Twitter or Safari&#8217;s Top Sites when I have ten seconds free between thoughts, distraction is but a click away.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a variety of sounds I can choose for key clicks, which seems odd at first. Don&#8217;t I want to avoid distractions here? Well, nicely enough, the key click sounds actually seem to focus you on the words you&#8217;re typing.<\/p>\n<p>As well as the key clicks, it plays soothing music all the time. Meditative, gentle music. I suspect that&#8217;s probably part of the appeal, and I should probably just find some meditative music to play in iTunes if this is truly helpful.<\/p>\n<p>Really not liking the underscore for typing, though. That seems a throwback, a long, long way back. Zardax on a CAT Apple II clone way back. And it&#8217;s getting in my way.<\/p>\n<p>A nice idea. Worth a look if you need to write and the world is interrupting you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Typing this text into an app called\u00a0Ommwriter. An interesting way to work. I&#8217;ve never given full screen writing applications much thought, but it really does help to remove the distractions of a modern computer. Maybe the iPad, in that it will only show one application at once, will work the same way. Right now, if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/distraction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Distraction<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}