[jesselawson]

I write science fiction and also work in technology. My days are spent glued to a screen so much that it's hard to want to write on my computer when I have time to write. So I do everything longhand, then wait for long weekends to translate things from my notebook into a word processor. I wish I could do my drafts on my computer; I used to be able to work all day and night in front of a screen, but lately I've been realizing that I'm a lot less anxious overall when I (try to) stop interacting with computers after a certain time.

One thing I've been thinking about is having a computer hooked up to a rudimentary word processor app on my kindle. The kindle's display doesn't bother me after I'm done working on screens. It feels different enough that it doesn't interrupt my reading, so I've posited that I would be okay writing on one.

I'm excited to see technology like this come out, and I'm excited to see how this little industry grows.

[pjgalbraith]

Great to hear that I'm not the only one. After working all day in front of a screen I just can't get motivated to spend my night in front of a computer so I end up doing a lot of planning and note-taking but not enough drafting.

I have recently bought a Onyx BOOX Nova which I plan to use via a bluetooth keyboard when it arrives. I had the exact same thought regarding e-ink displays since I read a lot using a kindle after work.

[mdp2021]

> a computer hooked up to a rudimentary word processor app on my

You just need an Android tablet with EPD display and a decent word processor.

If you do not want full formatting - so, you are contented with typewriter like rendering -, there must be abundance of software application. If you want proper typographical paragraph formatting, with e.g. full text justification and spacing etc., there are a few usable applications. (As written in anther post, in the end, to have an application with all the features I wanted, I wrote it directly.)

[kiwidrew]

You could also try to track down an old CRT serial terminal; they have very sharp monochrome displays and I find that the dark background with amber/green/white phosphor is very easy on the eyes.

It's also more difficult to get distracted while using a real terminal, because of its inherent limitations as a textual output device.

[mariusor]

The writing tables that appeared in the past years: reMarkable, Onyx, Kobo Elipsa, etc, support this use case very well. They have handwriting recognition that you can use to convert to documents to plain textm and which require a little less work than having to do transcribe it fully.