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I like the look of it, and I like the idea behind it. It's not for me, but it's still nice.

I don't see how it's supposed to be a Panacea though. Are there people out there who have great difficulty blogging?

It's called writer's block and it's pretty much universal. The point is to streamline the content creation process so that there are no distractions between you and the work. Hopefully produce more and better work when you can really focus on the craft. Once a blog post gets to the "nearly finished" state then you can deal with the 5000 options WordPress offers around every post, such as tags and crosslinking old posts and formatting and url slugs and and and...

I agree and sometimes its nice to have an uncluttered interface to work with.

I find it easier to work with a full screen minimalistic editor [1,2] when writing than say word..

1 http://www.codealchemists.com/jdarkroom/ 2 http://www.ommwriter.com/

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