Show HN: New Ensō – first public beta

Posted by rpastuszak 6/30/2025

Show HN: New Ensō – first public beta(untested.sonnet.io)

Ensō is a writing tool that helps you enter a state of flow by separating writing from editing and thus making it harder for you to edit yourself - https://enso.sonnet.io/

After 6 years and 2 million words of daily writing I feel like I've learned enough to make Ensō simpler and more accessible.

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layer8 6/30/2025|

This has its uses. However, I tend to use writing for reasoning about stuff, where you can’t keep everything relevant in your head simultaneously, and then it’s pretty crucial to be able to read what you wrote, even if you have no need to edit it.

handedness 6/30/2025||

Longtime Ensō user here. Your update to query interest in a Linux version has given me hope. The last thing someone actively trying to avoid distraction needs is an open browser window!

nine_k 6/30/2025|

Consider this:

  cat > ~/my-notes.txt <<EOF
  Type here anything you want. 
  To save and finish, type:
  EOF

Zero software to install, no editing except maybe backspace, no selection, no spellchecking, no formatting, no distractions on the screen.

mycocola 6/30/2025||

Interesting tool. I do something similar when I think it's important to focus on just getting the words out: I close my eyes, or look away from the screen.

urig 6/30/2025||

I appreciate the artistic and programming skills of the developer but not the "cleverness" and "quirkiness" of their announcement post. It took me too long to figure out that this is some sort of distraction-less writing app only for iOS and so of no value to me. Less snappy memes, more empathy for me as a visitor, please.

xandrius 6/30/2025||

The name brought me back to the PS Vita hacking times, I thought it would be something to jailbreak the PS5 or the switch 2. A bit disappointed :(

opan 6/30/2025|

I clicked for the same reason, haha.

seabass 6/30/2025||

Huge kudos for omitting analytics tracking for an app like this. Your reasoning totally resonated with me, and I hope more app devs follow suit!

lowwave 6/30/2025||

Very nice! Looks like OmmWriter. Is it open source?

ethan_smith 7/1/2025|

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lowwave 7/1/2025|||

Hmm while projects like this is nice. But being it NOT open source such OmmWriter is what stopped me eventually stop using it.

Writing in program such as that is a very personal experience, and doing it on a non open source platform just seems off for me.

gen6acd60af 7/1/2025|||

>Based on the GitHub repo at github.com/rpastuszak/enso

That GitHub repo URL doesn't exist, nor does the user namespace.

Could you please clarify where you are seeing this?

The author's GitHub profile appears to be https://github.com/paprikka.

jlarks32 6/30/2025||

Just want to say beautiful website and product. Ensō looks well designed. And your "digital garden" is gorgeous as well.

jnsie 6/30/2025||

There used to be a really neat application launcher called Enso. Is this related in any way?

whirlwin 6/30/2025|

The imagery on the spalsh page reminds me of Moomin.

Nevertheless looking forward to following this project!

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