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Start a new draft?

Your current draft will be cleared. Make sure to download it first if you want to keep it.

Save to Google Drive

Save draft to etype_drafts folder in Google Drive.

You can include subfolders, e.g. old man/and the sea

⚡ Flow Mode

Sprint drafting with stakes. Keep writing at your minimum pace — if you pause too long, the ink evaporates backwards!

5 min
1 min 5 min 10 min
30 WPM
10 WPM 45 WPM 80 WPM
~3.0s pause before ink begins evaporating
Normal (4 ch/s)
Slow (1 ch/s) Normal (4 ch/s) Rapid (8 ch/s)
Deletes ~4 characters per second when idle
Drafts will auto-save here upon session completion when signed in.

⚡ Flow Complete!

You completed your session and preserved your draft.

Duration 5 min
Words 0
Avg Pace 0 WPM

Draft saved locally and to Google Drive.

About E-Type

There's a theory that there are two stages to writing: first drafts, where you get everything out without overthinking, and editing, where you can overthink as much as you want.

This app is for first drafts.

You can use this without an account and just download the draft at any time.

Or you can log in with your Google ID and give it permission to save things to a folder in your Google Drive. (That's all it does. All the code for this is visible in your browser, and you can examine it in the repo linked below.)

But you can't backspace, you can't delete, you can't move the cursor around. It's a typewriter. Write your draft, save it to Google Drive, and edit it there.

Enjoy.

We use Google Analytics to record use of this apps features (we count visits and button clicks) to help us improve the app. Nothing identifiable (document contents, titles, user names) is ever tracked.

Settings

Drafts will be saved to this folder in your Google Drive.
Flow mode drafts will auto-save to this folder in Google Drive.