[HN Gopher] Write thin to write fast
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       Write thin to write fast
        
       Author : breck
       Score  : 28 points
       Date   : 2021-11-09 19:58 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | omarhaneef wrote:
       | I will add that it's also useful to have as much text as possible
       | so you can see the flow, the context and the "context of the
       | context."
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       | But I find this insight more or less convincing so I guess the
       | ideal writing screen is thin and tall.
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       | Sadly, that's the opposite of what horizontal monitors encourage.
       | This might be another benefit of physical notebooks.
        
       | d23 wrote:
       | Interesting idea. No clue if it's true, but it deserves an upvote
       | just for being intriguing if nothing else.
        
       | grvdrm wrote:
       | This resonates with me. I typically narrow my Outlook windows to
       | ensure a certain look/feel to my line length and breaks. I get
       | flustered any time the window stretches across the the screen. So
       | fun to read through another person's experience with this.
        
       | runevault wrote:
       | Interesting. Scrivener 3 actually defaults to using no where near
       | all the screen real estate for words when writing, keeping it in
       | a thinner column (which I now wonder if has a way to configure
       | it), and I wonder if a similar idea was why they did that.
        
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