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.

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!

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

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.

The imagery on the spalsh page reminds me of Moomin.

Nevertheless looking forward to following this project!

Looks really neat. Took me a few minutes to figure out what it was. A description above the fold (or here!) would be great.

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

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.

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

imo it's more of a thinking constraint journaling tbh.. friction like edit lock, coffee noise, fullscreen etc just makes me stop editing while thinking lol not letting me kill the raw draft midway.. more tools shud do this subtractive ux

For a second I thought it was the Enso analytics tool I worked with for a short while (as in “migrating away from it”). I’m glad it’s not.