# Review: The Most Dangerous Writing App

Ok so this is my first time using "[the most dangerous writing app](https://www.squibler.io/dangerous-writing-prompt-app)". It works like this: you set yourself a goal, either a number of words or minutes, and you have to keep writing until that goal has been reached. If you stop at all, the app removes everything you've written. You'll have to start over. That forces you to just dump out the words from your head as they are thought, no time for formatting or looking for quotes or anything else that could slow you down. No time for thinking either. That's a relief.

I'm using the app right now. I'm panicking a bit already. I cannot lose this all, it's a whole paragraph already! And if I keep writing this stream of consciousness, nobody will enjoy reading it. But maybe that's ok, I'm mostly writing for myself anyway.

When I pondered using this app, or rather writing a review for it, earlier this month, I prepared some ideas in my head. I've forgotten them all already. That's fine. I mean, it's not like a review like this should be pre-thought. What would be the point? Or maybe the point would be that the mere thought of using this app would lead to pre-thinking. And that sounds like something that might actually be useful.

It shows me the word count. I'm not sure if that helps at all. Maybe it does. I think I picked five minutes instead of 500 words to test it out, but I didn't start an external timer. Funny, now it shows me that five minutes have passed.

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Ok lets do the word count based one now. I took a two-minute break between these. Not for thinking, but had to get my pulse to slow down just a bit. I read the description, and it said that if you stop typing for five seconds it will delete everything. Horrifying thought. I'm too lazy to retype this all, although maybe the results would be better if I did. I now see a progress bar on the top of the page. Maybe it was there for the timed version too? There's also a hardcore mode, which prevents the use of backspace and doesn't let you go back. As if I'd need a hardcore mode. I make enough typos that using backspace is a requirement anyway, not to mention missing articles and such which, whenever rarely I even notice them, add by deleting the last word and then retyping it.

I'm not sure if I intended to actually write about something. My stomach has been hurting the whole day because I've been stressing my work. I've been implementing a new system and I need to make benchmarks for it. The primary reason for the new system is that it's faster. I like working on it. For the past couple of days the benchmarks showed it was slower than the old system. Really stressful. Today I finally made the benchmarks faster for my new thingy. Relief! And not even in a cheating way, I actually improved the performance. I had to ask ChatGPT to help with anxiety management and it gave me some breathing excercises. Weird how I can do them when ChatGPT suggests it but from a human or a book I wouldn't have listened.

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As you might have guessed, the text above was written using the app. No proofreading or editing has been done, except that I added the link to the tool. It was fun. Maybe I'll use it in the future for something less meta.