Of course—I was more advocating the practice than the program, as in my last paragraph. To be honest, $5 a month for something that takes 20+ minutes a day is cheap. The opportunity cost is much higher than that. You could earn more than that on Mechanical Turk in a fraction of the time.
Actually, the main downsides on a day-to-day basis for me for 750words are that you have to use your browser for a text editor which is OK these days but I’d rather be using my favorite desktop one, and that you need internet access to write it.
There is always the cheap and private option to write 750 words a day in a text processor, and use Beeminder to remind you.
Of course—I was more advocating the practice than the program, as in my last paragraph. To be honest, $5 a month for something that takes 20+ minutes a day is cheap. The opportunity cost is much higher than that. You could earn more than that on Mechanical Turk in a fraction of the time.
Actually, the main downsides on a day-to-day basis for me for 750words are that you have to use your browser for a text editor which is OK these days but I’d rather be using my favorite desktop one, and that you need internet access to write it.