A writing tool that won't write for you.
Ink
Handwriting and drawing directly between paragraphs using a digital pen, stylus, or Apple pencil.
Dangerous Writing App
Dangerous Writing App. If you stop typing, all progress will be lost. Now with over 500+ writing prompts to choose from.
Scratch – A minimalist markdown scratchpad
An offline-first, open source markdown note-taking app. No cloud, no account, no subscriptions.
Supernote - Go Paperless with Our Digital Note-Taking Solution
Supernote is a modern E-Ink tablet and digital notebook designed for handwriting, note-taking, and sketching. Shop Supernote online today.
iA Writer: The Benchmark of Markdown Writing Apps
Plain text. Total focus. The Industry standard Markdown text editor. Available for Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android, and Windows. Download it now, try it for free
Written? Kitten!
The Internet's best write-reward system! Write one hundred words, get an image of a kitten!
Writing by Hand is Good for your Brain - Here's how to do it
Because I am known to write using a fountain pen on paper, a number of people have pointed me to this post and its underlying research. I won’t rehash what is said in those sources, but the gist of it is that when you write things down by hand you’re recruiting more of your brain, which is a good thing.
supernote-cli: pen, paper, and a pipe
A recent NYT piece argued we need a mental fitness revolution to combat the cognitive decay caused by algorithmic feeds and generative AI. It's an efficient one-two punch. If you're not brainrotting on short form video content, you're outsourcing all of your thinking to an LLM. The result is a kind of cognitive strip-mining. What's left requires active defense. For me, one way of defending that capacity for deep work is with a pen on e-ink. Whether it's annotating a paper or starting a sketch from scratch, I'm intentionally making room for focused thought. My army of clawed Claudes and Codexes will just have to wait.
Augmented Text Tools. Minimalist writing, powerful tools
Augmented Text tools offer a new ecosystem for writing, reading and interacting with text. Author is a writing app for Mac which makes citations and concept mapping easier than ever before. Reader is a free minimalist PDF viewer with powerful interactions.
Writing Is Thinking
When you write about your work, it makes all of us smarter for the effort, including you. Done well, this kind of sharing means you’re contributing signal, instead of noise. But writers are made, n…
About Pckt Notes & Writers Block - Brookie’s Blog
I'm feeling bad at writing lately. I think that's okay sometimes, not everything has to be perfect... And it's not really perfection that I'm seeking, but it ca...
outl — local-first markdown outliner & LLM second brain
Open-source bullet-point outliner. Plain markdown on disk (no UUIDs), peer-to-peer tree-CRDT sync that doesn't lose data when devices edit offline — your devices talk straight to each other, end-to-end encrypted, no cloud or third-party server holding your notes — and an MCP server so Claude, Cursor and ChatGPT use your notes as a second brain. A modern Roam, Logseq and Obsidian alternative built in Rust.
Writing Is Designing By Michael J. Metts & Andy Welfle
Discover how words shape UX with Writing Is Designing. Learn to craft clear, human-centered content for apps, chatbots, and software interfaces.
