Writing On Your Phone

How to optimize your writing

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I decided to try out writing an entire article using only my phone. Let’s see whether anything good comes out of this.

To my knowledge, this topic is not very popular on this platform, despite the absurd amount of writing tips published every day.

I’ll go through advantages and disadvantages to give you an idea how convenient it can be.

1. Swipe it with one thumb

Most smartphone keyboards now have a swiping function that lets you write entire words just by dragging one of your fingers across the keyboard. Pretty cool! This is what it looks like.

Me trying to swipe the word "keyboard"

Once you try this way of typing, you’ll never go back. It will take you a while though. The only downside is that it doesn’t really feel like you’re writing.

2. Write anywhere

If you’re stuck in a line, at the airport, or you’re just bored, type away your boredom instead of watching cat videos.