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You ever sit down to write the first

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draft of something and find

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yourself spending more time

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editing or playing whack-a-mole with

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squiggly red lines? That

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stuff drives me crazy. It's so

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distracting. So I created Wastebasket, a

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super simple writing app

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designed just for drafting

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words. Here's how it works. You open

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wastebasket.app and you

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start writing. That's it.

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Wastebasket won't try to help you.

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There's no spell check,

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auto-complete, or AI tools. You can't

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even make something bold. It gets out of

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your way so you can focus

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on the words you're currently

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trying to write. Put it in full screen

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for a completely Zen

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experience. When you're done,

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click copy or save it to your device. If

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you want to start over, just toss the

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current draft in the

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wastebasket. Oh look, there's some

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settings. Let's check them out. You can

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pick from one of three

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fonts. I figure any more choices than

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that and you're just procrastinating.

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We've also got themes,

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light, dark, and auto. You can even move

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the toolbar to the top. I

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find that useful for writing

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on the iPad. Do you want an icon to click

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on? You can add to dock  or

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add to home screen or some

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browsers have an install option. There

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you go. Wastebasket stores

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everything on your device.

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Nothing is stored in the cloud and

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there's no accounts and no tracking

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either. It even works

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when you're offline. How cool is that?

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All right, enough

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already. Go write something.