basilesamel

Yes! You can't improve if you keep your writings to yourself :) Let the world help you.

sorry for the late reply :) I write here: https://200wordsaday.com/writers/BasileSamel

Co-maker here, ask us anything :)

If I ever manage to finish it :P So many volumes

Search feature coming up this week hopefully!

Thank you for taking the time to write this! I need more time to consider your points. One thing I am sure of though, is that this is a writing community, not a list of publications like the ones you can find on Medium. Empowering the writers matters more to me. The content is important obviously, but what I really want is for them to just write. Anything. And be seen/heard.

Thank you! Don't hesitate to reach out to me if you have any suggestion or improvement point to share. I would love to hear them!

Yes the private posts will be a thing very soon: https://trello.com/c/s0Hho8LS/30-later-an-user-should-be-abl...

This is not a problem at all! Your writings belong to you. Always.

This is nice Gunjan. Post your words in our community, we love to read those! Originally 200wordsaday is still about writing short articles daily. Writing a book is a personal goal of mine. The members have many different goals: just get better at writing, releasing their ideas for the world to read etc.

200 is still so hard for many people. I talked to users who tried the website and couldn't do more than a 1-day streak, they all say the same: I can't get into the habit / too much work / didn't plan it blablabla And I think this is the case for 80% people on earth. And I'm talking about english native speakers, non-native are even less likely to reach 200 words per day.

Anywasy, thanks for sharing your experience! I appreciate it.

Yes you are right. But isn't it nice as well to digress a bit sometimes :)? Still, a goal feature would be nice.

This is becoming my life work :D I work full-time on it!

I'm using Symfony 4 (PHP) and some basic JQuery. Nothing fancy but it allows me to ship faster as I'm starting to know it well. Here is an article I wrote detailing my stack: https://medium.com/@basilesamel/how-i-am-building-my-minimum...

This description fascinates me because of the iterative development analogy. Way up in my reading list, thanks again!

Some people PMed me about it. I think we are going to tag our posts with #publicbook and those will be drafts that will probably be integrated into our books.

This is intriguing. It reminds me of 750words.com as well. I think what I really want to show with the 200 words objective is that it is reachable by anyone. 1600 words per day is way too much for a regular worker who just started writing.

You are 100% right. The website is 3 weeks old and the "book editing" feature is not released yet.

Thank you! I'm trying to improve it daily so if you have any suggestion I would love to hear it.

This is awesome! Love those advices. I will consider them carefully while I'm doing this. Thank you so much!

I already have my home made app and it's called https://200wordsaday.com :P

3 weeks today lol MVP in two days, MLP in one week

Thank you! Exactly what I'm describing in the article: 200 words give you momentum. I end up with double this word count in average.

I'm 24 and this would be my first book. Let me learn my lessons. Thanks for the warning though!

Yeah. Do they publish comment books though?

Thanks for the insight!

Thanks! :D

got it, sorry about that :) I wanted to release something to get feedback and didn't have time to make it responsive. Thanks for the remark

got it, thanks :)

thanks :) I'm going to rework the engine with SVG and a front-end framework to optimize that !

alright I'm pushing your request to the public roadmap : https://trello.com/c/vBnBcTPj/42-sync-feature

- "an interactive, non permanent example on the front page, maybe you can even structure all your talking points within that"

This is good, I like this idea

- "why do lists branch off other lists and not items ?"

because I want to keep the UI minimal and this adds design complexity

- "Can I at least convert an item to a branched list ?"

not now, but yes is on my public todo list (ironically on trello for now : https://trello.com/b/mNeJCxNK/ymappr)

- "I have to admit to prefer nested lists instead of mind-maps"

it works for two or three levels of nesting :P after that, hard to visualize in a meaningful way in my opinion

- "My nested lists fail when a child has two parents, with mind maps this is not a problem"

again, I think it adds too much complexity to have a k-tree structure instead of a pure graph. Ideally I'd like something as minimal and simple as a Trello board, but without the boards :P

Anyways, thanks for the feedback, you gave me a lot to think about and I will think about how to integrate that in a clean way :)