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Honestly?
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Honestly.
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Originally Posted by Hitch
Yet another fad item. What's the point? If someone is SO EASILY distracted that they can't use a notebook or laptop or desktop, without SQUIRREL! every 30 seconds, what's the likelihood that they have the attention span and discipline to finish a damn book in the first place?
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The whole point is for those who are easily distracted to move to somewhere (or something) where distractions can't intrude. It actually works. (Not speaking of Freewrite, but of simpler "get the text down" devices.)
For me there's more to it than the lack of the distractions of the Internet, there's also the distraction of worrying about format – what the document looks like, rather than its content. My Alphasmart (or even a simple CLI text editor) gets me past that. If the "trick" works, it's more than a "fad."
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It's like the 9 billion dedicated "novel writing" software programs, most of which don't do anything special except say "I'm a WRITER!" with this or that sort of foofy appearance.
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Actually, it's kind of the opposite of those "foofy" "'novel writing' software programs" – as mentioned above.
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Save the money, and just CLOSE THE DOOR if you have that many attention deficit issues.
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That's the point. Something like the AlphaSmart Neo (and for some, apparently, the Freewrite) is "CLOSING THE DOOR." Closing the door to distractions.
Not everyone is the same. If it works for some folks (like me) more power to them (or us).