Okay, so I believe that I mentioned this before, but Istune's suggestion has brought it back to mind.
Folks might remember the WriteOrDie web app I've mentioned before. It allows you to set targets for time spent writing, word count, and words per minute. To keep you going, it has the option of three modes: Stimulus, Reward, and Consequence. Stimulus simply provides ambience to help you keep chugging along. Reward is similar to stimulus, except it's only triggered so long as you maintain your target WPM rate. Consequence punishes you with scary sounds and jump scares if you do not maintain your target WPM.
As an added thing, it has a "kamekaze" mode where it will delete everything you're written during the session if you don't keep up.
Through the use of cookies, the website tracks your previous sessions and it even permits you to export what you've written in several formats.
But the fly in the ointment is that it hasn't been updated in over three years. And as the webapp is right now, the interface seems to work best under Google Chrome.
But what to do? Because we all know about how Chrome has... issues with privacy.
I would say "Use Sandboxie", but Sophos has pretty much abandoned it. They did leave the source code on GitHub, and it has been forked by a few people. But I don't know how well it's going to be kept up. This one seems to hold promise, but the coder handling it needs money for licensing the driver software, otherwise it winds up being picked up as a false positive by antivirus software.
Get Sandboxie here so you can safely contain Chrome: https://github.com/sandboxie-plus/Sandbo...tag/v0.4.2
Write or Die is here: https://writeordie.com/
Folks might remember the WriteOrDie web app I've mentioned before. It allows you to set targets for time spent writing, word count, and words per minute. To keep you going, it has the option of three modes: Stimulus, Reward, and Consequence. Stimulus simply provides ambience to help you keep chugging along. Reward is similar to stimulus, except it's only triggered so long as you maintain your target WPM rate. Consequence punishes you with scary sounds and jump scares if you do not maintain your target WPM.
As an added thing, it has a "kamekaze" mode where it will delete everything you're written during the session if you don't keep up.
Through the use of cookies, the website tracks your previous sessions and it even permits you to export what you've written in several formats.
But the fly in the ointment is that it hasn't been updated in over three years. And as the webapp is right now, the interface seems to work best under Google Chrome.
But what to do? Because we all know about how Chrome has... issues with privacy.
I would say "Use Sandboxie", but Sophos has pretty much abandoned it. They did leave the source code on GitHub, and it has been forked by a few people. But I don't know how well it's going to be kept up. This one seems to hold promise, but the coder handling it needs money for licensing the driver software, otherwise it winds up being picked up as a false positive by antivirus software.
Get Sandboxie here so you can safely contain Chrome: https://github.com/sandboxie-plus/Sandbo...tag/v0.4.2
Write or Die is here: https://writeordie.com/