“Elegant”
“Dangerous”
“Relaxing”
“Perverted”
“Your best friend”
"Your worst nightmare"
Hey all, I’ve been a paying customer of FlowState since 2016 and wanted something similar for Obsidian.
It’s really fun. And stressful. But mostly fun.
It's simple:
- You start a timer for X minutes.
- THEN, during those X minutes you MUST write continuously.
- The catch: If you PAUSE for longer than 5 seconds, everything you’ve written is DELETED.
Here's an example session:
- Use it to "warm" up your writing muscle
- Use it to write that first draft however dirty and ragged
- Use it to keep you laser-focused on writing
- Open a note in Obsidian^
- Click the "Stopwatch" icon in the left bar to start the timer
- From now on, the count-down from 60 seconds to 0 starts
- Start writing!
- DO. NOT. STOP. WRITING for 60 seconds.
- If you DO stop writing for more than 5 seconds, everything you've written in this note so far is DELETED.
Again, let me be clear: If you stop for more than 5 seconds, your writing in this note will be deleted.
^ I usually create an empty one, but that's not necessary
If you've never used this type of writing before, I highly recommend starting with the defaults and an empty note to get a feeling for it.
- Fake it till you make it: It's totally fine to write a lot of "nothing" such as
Well, I don't know what to write here. Nothing comes to mind. I'm sitting here. Writing...- I do this all the time. You'll eventually find a thought that is interesting, so don't worry. - Don't Panic: Just because there's a countdown, doesn't mean you have to freak out. I know this sounds weird, but as long as you hit a key every second or so, this thing won't blow up. So, instead of switching to PANIC-MODE as soon as you start a session, just stay calm and start writing.
- Start small: Gradually increase session time as you get more comfortable with this type of challenge.
- Learn to touch-type: Learn to touch-type if you're not yet fully touch-typing and you're struggling with the mechanics to keep up. This is one of the most powerful hard-skills I've ever learned.
To optimize your flow experience, you can configure your:
- Countdown duration in seconds: Default is 60s, How many seconds you want your Dangerzone Writing session to last?
- Seconds-to-deletion fuse: Default is 5s, How many seconds until your text is deleted?
- Session Font-Size: Increases editor font-size temporarily for a more immersive experience. Leave empty to keep default size
- Session Background Color: Changes background color of editor temporarily for a more immersive experience. Find a good color at https://htmlcolorcodes.com. Leave empty to omit
You get a +1 🎉 for every Dangerzone Writing session you complete successfully. "Successfully" means that once the timer is up, there is at least some text there (indicating you didn't just give up and let the countdown finish).
- How do YOU use the Dangerzone? Leave a comment in the forum
- Got an idea for a setting? Leave a comment in the forum
- Wanna share a story of one of your Dangerzone sessions? Leave a comment in the forum
- Wanna share your successful sessions count? Leave a comment in the forum
- The plugin ate your homework? Well. Sorry but that's what it does (See disclaimer)
Thank you ryanjamurphy, roberthaisfield, macedotavares, afokapu, tristanbailey, lukeleppan, AutonomyGaps and hicsuntdragons for your feedback and support.
This plugin is provided as-is with NO warranty that it'll work exactly as you expect. It's made to DELETE text in a note after X seconds of inactivity when you're start a session. Please do not hold me responsible if it does, in fact, DELETE your text. That's what it does. On the other hand there is always the possibility of a bug that makes this plugin behave unexpectedly.