I'm using Typora too when I have to write something in Markdown. Though it is limited to being a markdown editor and it's not a platform that would help me to focus on writing more and frequently.
I agree that writing daily doesn't necessarily makes you a better writer, but usually it helps a lot. Also, writing your thoughts as often as possible gives you more sense of clarity.
Although there are many other free-distraction tools, we believe WriteNext differentiates from them. Our main focus is to help you write more often and better by creating a writing habit. It is not enough to have a distraction-free tool if you don't return to write there daily.
Thanks for the feedback. We've added those platforms that we believe are most popular for the majority of web users. In my opinion, the best solution would be something similar to what Solid (https://solid.mit.edu/) proposes. Unfortunately, they don't have much traction yet.
The encryption key is generated dynamically and it is not stored together with the encrypted content, thus in case of any leakage the words that were written are safe. The writing is decrypted and shown decrypted only to the writer itself and our team doesn't have access to see the words you've written.
There was a quick update that we put and the server was down for around 1 minute. I think you accessed just at that moment. Sorry for the inconvenience, please try now.
Absolutely, the text you write is encrypted using aes-256 before being stored on our servers. We're also considering allowing an option to encrypt once more with a custom password set by the writer - the problem with this custom encryption is that if you lose the password you're not able to get your words back.
Absolutely, once you start you get momentum and it is difficult to stop. I wrote just today over 2000 words and I planed just for 500. That's why we don't show the writing goal anywhere on the writing page, so that you don't have any limit while writing. I will check the podcast, thanks for sharing!
What still astounds me after 2 months of researching this space is that every day I learn about a new way people store what they write. The other day, I was talking with someone about how he stores what he writes in an Excel file. It's like Abraham Maslow said "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail".