noeljarillo / typewriter

Distraction-free writing for Amazon Kindle

paperwrite

I was debating building something like this in Flask with sockets but stumbled on this lovely project where someone else had the same idea. I'm just forking it as I prefer the saving method from the original but the cursor and formatting from gwynm's fork. I'll also make some tweaks of my own and maybe add a feature to save a specific file by a name at some point. I spent many hours debating which route to take to be able to write on a kindle and this eneded being the easiest and cheapest option. I will be using a raspberry pi, battery pack, travel router, and bluetooth keyboard to make this setup usable anywhere.

-- Below is gwynm and shubhro's read me

Paperwrite is a Meteor app that brings distraction-free writing to the Kindle.

This fork is based on Shubhro Saha's "typewriter". It adds a visible cursor, and removes the separate backup process in favour of a (rather hacky) continuous write into text files on the server.

• Set PAPERWRITE_SAVE_PATH to a folder where you want the text files to be saved
• Install Node and Meteor
• cd meteor-app && meteor
• Open localhost:3000/?editor in your computer's web browser
• Open [your computer's IP address]:3000 in your Kindle's browser

Click on the computer web app's top left corner to start typing. What you type there will now instantly appear on the Kindle.