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I made something similar inspired by this few times in the past. I think this is already quite perfect, ambient music I can provide myself. While I did thought of new…",{"id":94,"by":95,"text":96},"44425341","Fuzzy1000","Very playful website - I love it.",{"value":98,"source":79,"evidence":99},"Good for writing without self-editing",[100,101],{"id":65,"by":11,"text":66},{"id":102,"by":103,"text":104},"44423164","yapyap","Oh this is gonna be terrible for me, I love it",{"value":106,"source":79,"evidence":107},"Respects privacy by omitting analytics",[108],{"id":109,"by":110,"text":111},"44428354","seabass","Huge kudos for omitting analytics tracking for an app like this. Your reasoning totally resonated with me, and I hope more app devs follow suit!",[113,132,147],{"value":114,"source":79,"evidence":115},"Landing page and post don't explain what the app is",[116,120,124,128],{"id":117,"by":118,"text":119},"44422640","smusamashah","I dont know what Enso is. This page doesn't tell it in first few paragraphs. I wasn't to homepage of this website. That also mentions Enso but without a link. There is a link to…",{"id":121,"by":122,"text":123},"44432107","raylad","I read the first few screens and still had no idea what we were talking about. I came to the conclusion that maybe it was a paperwhite display of some sort. Apparently it’s an…",{"id":125,"by":126,"text":127},"44423699","urig","I appreciate the artistic and programming skills of the developer but not the \"cleverness\" and \"quirkiness\" of their announcement post. It took me too long to figure out that…",{"id":129,"by":130,"text":131},"44422651","owebmaster","Yeah the article is quite bad for the uninitiated but it seems that is how he talks to its own community. Looks like a text editor",{"value":133,"source":79,"evidence":134},"Only available on Mac; no Linux or Windows version",[135,139,143],{"id":136,"by":137,"text":138},"44423055","mellosouls","Appears to be Apple only, for anybody spending time on the page trying to work out what it's about.",{"id":140,"by":141,"text":142},"44422776","webstrand","Yeah had me confused, product link is \u003Chttps:\u002F\u002Fenso.sonnet.io\u002F>. Apparently only for mac. Not to be confused with Ensso, maker of fountain pens \u003Chttps:\u002F\u002Fwww.ensso.com\u002F>.",{"id":144,"by":145,"text":146},"44425688","handedness","Longtime Ensō user here. Your update to query interest in a Linux version has given me hope. 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