Sans Writer

Sans Writer

A joyful typing experience for the AI era.

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A distraction-free writing canvas for focus and creativity. Writing has become rushed, surveilled, and performative. But why? Most of what we write today is read by machines, not people. Sans w/o Clutter Sans w/o Consumption Sans w/o Surveillance
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Angus Rogers
Maker
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I was finding that, nowadays, I spend so much of my day writing prompts to AI. It was starting to feel weirdly anxious/stressed/frustrated from the cadence of my workflow. Every keystroke felt like it had a cost. My first port of call was to buy a nice mechanical keyboard (the theory being that it would make typing more enjoyable). I then thought, what about the actual interface I type into - could that be more delightful? I'm dyslexic and I've become pretty reliant on all the various writing aids that run in the background, often without us realising. Sans is an attempt to scrap all of that and just focus on a clear stream of thoughts. After all, 99% of what I write nowadays is never going to be read by a human - it's going straight to AI. Sans is an attempt to take all the distractions, consumption, and tech out of the writing process — providing a clean slate where I can write better prompts in my own time without feeling like I'm against the clock, being watched, or consuming tokens/energy through every keystroke.
Rohan Gayen

How is this different from tools like Obsidian? Not clear about about the product differentiation.

Angus Rogers
Maker

@admiralrohan Hey Rohan, great question. The core differentiator to Obsidian is its "dumbness". There are no settings, nothing to configure, no menus, just a blank slate + whatever words you type. It's like a digital typewriter.

I've tried to capture a few different elements that I like from different writing tools: the beauty of Notion, the simplicity and offline/locality of Text Editor, the privacy of Obsidian. It's weirdly difficult to build something with less because it's so tempting and easy to add small features here and there. The Loom vid explains how I was craving something that forces me to spend time in a completely uncluttered environment that makes typing delightful instead of sending prompts back and forth to AI without enough intentionality.

Hopefully that makes sense? Keen to hear your thoughts if you have a chance to take it for a test drive :)

Rohan Gayen

@angus_rogers I watched the demo video. Is this a distraction-free prompt writing tool?

Angus Rogers
Maker

@admiralrohan Thanks Rohan. It's a distraction-free writing tool that I hope will be useful for people who spend a lot of time writing prompts.

The thing I've been really struggling with is the constant context-switching when I'm using multiple AI flows in parallel OR the temptation to get locked into an AI conversation instead of taking a step back and intentionally writing a solid prompt.

Sans only allows you to have 1 canvas - there are no tabs or file management systems so you're forced to focus on finishing the task in front of you (e.g. writing a great prompt) before copying to clipboard, clearing your canvas, and moving onto the next thing.

Hopefully that makes sense? I appreciate the positioning is a little nuanced, but I'm trying to build Sans as an antidote to some of the new and yet-to-be-discovered 'micro-anxieties' and 'micro-pains' that are inevitably going to seep into our workflows in the AI era.

What do you think - is this something that resonates with you?

Rohan Gayen

@angus_rogers At this moment, can't see any use case. I myself don't type in LLM chatbox as I accidentally hit enter. But already tied to obsidian for daily journals and I reuse the same window for prompts.

Yong Woo Shin

I hope you keep the clear concept of Sans writer.

Notion or obsidian's makers may had the same intention, but now they got too much complicated.

Good luck! :)

Angus Rogers
Maker
@pritraveler great point Yong - it’s a slippery slope with feature creep! My intention is to keep Sans simple and clean at its core!