Thursday, 18 October 2018

How to Write Freely?



Imagine having a device through which you can write your thoughts, stories, poems at any time you want without any distractions. This device can be a boon for the writers, bloggers, scriptwriters, poets and many other people who love to write. I am a blogger and having this device can be a major advantage to my blogging project. There is such a kind of device and is called Freewrite Traveler. It is a kind of mini laptop and is distraction free with no social media or any other kind of apps installed that causes frequent disturbances. The only apps installed are few inbuilt ones for saving and for other purposes related with drafting your content.


Freewrite Traveler is developed by a New York based company called Astrohaus and the idea of Traveler originated in 2016.


Unique features     

  1. It is half the size of a normal 15”inch laptop. Its dimensions are 12”x 5”x 1”.
  2. The device is easily transportable and weighs just 0.8 kg. Remember the Traveler is not slim but it’s keys are really comfortable.
  3. Has a 6” E-ink display. E-ink display is not disturbing to the eyes and can be used in sunlight too. It has 2 screens. One main big screen for displaying your writing and a small status screen underneath the main screen for displaying the word count, the time spent on the device etc.
  4. Battery life is excellent and can run up to 30 hours on a single full charge. There is USB type C for charging purposes and for transferring data as well.
  5. The keyboard is the most talked about and the best feature about this device. It is the old school keyboard used in the starting of the 21st century. It is called custom tactile scissor switch keyboard and comes in QWERTY format and comes with 30+ keyboard layouts and languages for the international customers.
  6. You can store your drafts in cloud storage applications like Dropbox, Google Drive and Evernote with the help of 2.4 Ghz Wi-Fi. So you don’t have to be worried regarding the loss of your data as the traveler has the capacity to save up to 1 million+ pages and there is cloud storage option too.
  7. The written file is saved in .docx or .fdx(final draft) format in the clouds.

The only thing that is disliked about Traveler is the screen size. There is enough space left out which could have been used as a screen.

Many books and screenplays have already been written on this device. 45 million words have been written on Traveler till now. This device is mainly used for writing a rough content with regards to your project. Editing part is done in your main laptops or PCs. It is easily foldable like a normal laptop and easily fits inside a bag.

Why you should buy it?


Ideas and stories can come anywhere and anytime, so you have to be prepared and Traveler helps you with this. While travelling, we could use a tab or a mac or any other thin laptop for writing purposes but it may cause us distraction in many ways through frequent notifications and social media addiction. Distraction in between writing can be a big loss to your novel or blog. Traveler frees us from every other distraction and enables us to write in one go. Some testers have written around 10 times more than what they used to write with a laptop.     
     

The Traveler is available on Indiegogo website for booking. It costs around $269 and will be available by June 2019.