I created this small app for you, if you like to write

Really like it. Love the detail of saving in localstorage.

Thinks that, from my point of view, can create an even better experience.

* 1.5 space between paragraphs.

* Backspace sound.

* New line sound.

* Space sound.

* 80 character wide.

* Slightly different sound per key (or row of keys).

* Easy to remember domain.

Then things that I am not so sure, but as long as don't change the interface, could be cool.

* Ctrl-C copy all the text without the need of selecting text. (Probably require flash).

* Ctrl-Shift-C the same but copy the result of markdown the current text (so html is actually copied).

* Selecting text automatically copy the selection to the clipboard.

Things that I will like to play with but don't sure if they are usefull.

* Page simulation. 80 char + margin in white, with proper paper texture, and back background.

* Go for fullscreen on load (if possible), and fallback to show a small, only onmousemove fullscreen icon.

On any case. Really. I really like it. Love to be able to have a webdav (basic auth) interface and could install on my own server. So i can add files just by changing the url, and access that files later through ssh.

Someone please make me understand why this end up on first page on HN. I saw similar apps many times earlier here. What's the big deal? Why not regular editor in some 'guru' distraction free mode? For instance Sublime Text can do that (including autosave and quick startup).

The sound is lagging behind my typing by at least a second. As a result, I hear nothing and then bursts of several instances of the sound playing at once, which sounds awful. As others have pointed out, the lag might be because you're invoking local storage after every keyup event. I see the merit in that idea, but as AskHugo suggested, it runs a lot smoother if you save every 2 seconds. I don't think anyone would complain about losing a maximum of the past 2 seconds of their work.

Sound effects are always going to be a polarizing feature (some like it, some hate it), and the comments on this post prove that. You should provide an easy way to turn sound effects off.

That aside, great job with this. I am a big fan of beauty through simplicity.

Just to echo some of the ideas mentioned here...

Enjoyed the keypress noise.

Expected word wrap and "ka-ching" sound.

Love the minimal interface.

Markdown support would be really cool.

Other than display what I type, I couldn't reckon anything else this can do.

Reading the comments I see I missed some things but that's a pretty clear failure of UI design.

So I went back. Still can't see any features other than display what I type.

So I try again, this time on Chrome. Now I hear very annoying audio as I type, and no hint of any other features.

How the hell does this POC make it to the front page of Hacker News?

Superb for writing, but what do I do once I'm done? Really like the sound as I type though my mechanical keyboard makes them for me already! :)

It doesn't go Ka Ching when I hit enter...

I don't know if I'm just imagining it, but typing feels a little laggy.

Could it be because it's saving to local storage after every keyup?

I made it save every 2 seconds with setInterval() and it feels a little smoother.

Awesome. Two requests:

1. No sound. It's distracting. 2. Support of markdown?

Nice.

Would be cool to be able to store things in a more secure feeling way than local storage.

Also, the already made comments about ka-ching and word wrap.

Nice! It would be cool if you could login/send it to your gmail inbox or something. Than later use it.

I would love to write emails in such editor!

Quite awesome

I would like to be able to Write different notes tho. Apart from that, pretty neat concept.

And the design is beautiful.

I actually had fun with this. Any chance of adding word wrapping? It lost its charm once I had to scroll to see my longer sentences.

Two things, besides the limited usefulness of it:

sound on keypress, really?

save on keypress, really?

The sound is so satisfying that I spend 5 minutes writing a bunch of senseless stuff just to hear it.

The carriage return sound isn't preloaded. You misspelled the preload attribute as preloaf.

A word & character count somewhere in the margins would be great.

Absolutely love it.

Beautiful! Thanks for sharing: Wordwrap would be a nice addition, as others have noted.

Please add support for Tab key.

Beautiful. Will you release the source? Would love to have this locally on my mac.

Intuitive. Simple. fast. Would like to have such a native text editor.

I'm impressed by the simplicity of the Javascript. Well done. :)

it's really fun :) hey, here's an idea, make a sublime plugin that makes the clickety-click sounds!

please ignore the folks asking for a mute button. they can mute if they want to.