I decided to try it out while writing our annual Christmas letter. It’s an interesting concept – I can see how creative writers would really like it. For anyone who has to reference source material or do research while writing (as I do when blogging), I think it is a little less natural.
Social 2.5
I’m very pleased to share version 2.5 of Social with you. Brought to you by our good friends at MailChimp (see their blog post), Social is a…
Despite my age, I did get to write a few papers on an old IBM PC running ProfessionalWrite on DOS 2.11 (or 3.0 if I was in a futuristic mood). Yes it’s not nearly as distracting… but I wonder how practical it is these days. Email, web etc. Just because you don’t want to be distracted, doesn’t mean you can ignore everything else.
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