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Paul mentioned the prevalence of distraction-free software on the web вЂ“ apps like SelfControl and OmmWriter, which allow users to block the most tempting websites for a specific period of time. He and Paul dreamed up the device while sitting across from one another in a co-working space in Detroit, Michigan. вЂњIвЂ™ve always been interested in writing and super-interested in productivity,вЂќ Leeb says.

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ItвЂ™s a portable distraction-free writing tool that doesnвЂ™t allow for Internet browsing, but has WiFi capability and automatically uploads all of your drafts to the Cloud, synching them with Dropbox, Evernote, and/or Google Drive. TheyвЂ™ve created Freewrite, billed as the worldвЂ™s first smart typewriter.

Most fondly, perhaps, we remember the ability to concentrate on one thing only вЂ“ the page in front of us вЂ“ without the temptation to check Facebook or post a new cat photo to Instagram or lose ourselves in the endless website browsing weвЂ™re convinced is вЂњresearch.вЂќДЄdam Leeb and Patrick Paul, co-founders of the tech company Astrohaus, have found a way to take writers back in time to those blissful hours of single-minded focus on a manuscript. Writers of a certain age remember life before the internet вЂ“ the hum of the electric typewriter, the thwack of metal type bars against a rubber roller, the astringent smell of Liquid Paper (and the mess).