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Is the idea here with Coffeeshop mode that typos can be dealt with later?",{"id":52,"by":53,"text":54},"44719302","yorwba","It seems like the gimmick of Ensō is that it's write-only and doesn't allow you to edit anything, so not being able to see your typos might be for the best actually.",{"id":56,"by":57,"text":58},"44718321","efskap","Very cool, like \u003Cinput type=\"password\"> except with whitespace so you retain a vague sense of the wordshapes :) I could honestly see myself using this in a coffeeshop for the…",[],"unknown",{"praise":62,"objections":72,"requests":73,"questions":81,"alternatives":86},[63],{"value":64,"source":65,"evidence":66},"Clever idea for privacy and focus in coffeeshops","commenter",[67,68],{"id":56,"by":57,"text":58},{"id":69,"by":70,"text":71},"44720139","bouyaveman6","Thanks for the sharing, installed and ready to try for my next coffeeshop session",[],[74],{"value":75,"source":76,"evidence":77},"Add a toy box of experimental generative features","maker",[78],{"id":79,"by":11,"text":80},"44721586","Ah, the original site is dead but I found this: https:\u002F\u002Fwww.omniglot.com\u002Fconscripts\u002Fdotsies.htm The way dotsies stack remind me a little bit of Cistercian Numerals…",[82],{"value":83,"source":65,"evidence":84},"Is the coffeeshop mode idea that typos can be fixed later?",[85],{"id":48,"by":49,"text":50},[87,98],{"value":88,"source":65,"evidence":89},"Dotsies glyph font",[90,94],{"id":91,"by":92,"text":93},"44722592","spiffytech","I always loved the idea of the Dotsies glyph system for coffeeshop mode. 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