A distraction-free place to write long essays
An editor with nothing in it but your essay. Close the outline, set your own typeface, size and spacing, let auto-save handle the rest, and stay inside the draft until it is finished.
Attention as practice
Slow reading is not a feat of endurance. It is a way of letting a sentence finish becoming itself.
An editor with nothing else in it
One row of controls instead of a ribbon, no sidebar of documents you are not writing, and an outline you can close when you want the page bare. What is left is the draft, at the width and alignment you chose.
- Close the outline and write against an empty page
- Full width or a measured column, whichever you read better in
- Justified or ragged right — set it once and forget it
Set the page up the way you actually read
Typeface, size, line spacing and paragraph indent are yours to choose, per heading level and for body text, with a live preview beside the controls. A page you are comfortable reading is a page you stay on longer.
- Choose the typeface and size for headings and body separately
- Adjust line spacing and paragraph indent to taste
- Preview the change before it touches the draft
Nothing you have to save, nothing you can lose
Changes are persisted as you type and each save becomes a version. There is no save button to keep half an eye on, and no dialogue asking whether you meant it.
- Auto-save on every change
- Every save recorded in the version history
- Keep writing when the connection drops — the app is installable and works offline
Quiet by default, on every device
Dark mode follows your system or your preference, the browser spell-check squiggle is a toggle rather than a fact of life, and word count, character count and reading time sit out of the way until you look for them.
- Dark mode built in
- Turn the spell-check underline on or off per essay
- Live word, character and reading-time counters
Close the other tabs. This one is quiet.
Open a blank page and write the first paragraph. Everything else in VerbaFlow is designed to get out of the way of the next one.