r/Astrohaus

AFAIK the Freewrites get the current date using the Internet connection. They don't have/use an internal timer/calendar and, therefore, if you don't have Internet connection, they keep the date from the latest successful one.

Therefore, if you're on the go and don't have an Internet connection, when you get it back, everything gets synced to that previous connection date, accumulating all your drafts in a sole date, no matter when you really wrote them.

It could easily broke your "day streak" in Postbox, but the most important part is that the real draft's date gets lost. So, in order to work properly, you need Internet connection with your Freewrites. Say bye-bye to that dream of going away without Internet coverage just with your Astrohaus device to write.

Has anyone else experienced this issue?

I hate a.i.. but I caved and utilized image-generating software for this.

Extremely "Breadboard" ...

The Freewrite products have the best physical characteristics of any of the other similar products being marketed elsewhere.

In particular, I think the Traveler is the sharpest because of its portability.

Still there is really something to be said for the sturdiness and resilience the gen 3 smarties put forward.

I like the idea of a screen protected by the hinge feature, and a big screen at that, providing the satisfaction of generating a physical document. Only a vintage typewriter can really provide that.

The Valentine edition made me dream of more. I thought about the tortoise shell glasses my grampa wore. Not with just the cheap spacklings of factory print, but with those extra translucent flecks of matter that make up the actual substance of tortoise shell material.

I also thought about a durable enough material to take out Anne Wilkes like the cast iron Royal 10 from Stephen King's Misery and that "ch-ching" sound it made. Chances are that typewriter would still work just as well after the fact.

Features: Who would have thought there would have been such a cult-like devotion to a companies underlying philosophy? That says a lot about the Freewrite brand.. and I agree with the sentiment.

My desire for editing capabilities as a feature within the device itself has nothing to do with professional functionality. I'm not looking for a secretary's device.

I'm looking for an F. Scott Fitzgerald device.

When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby, he took to his manuscript the way the Borglum's took to Mount Rushmore.. (with the obvious difference of being able to crumple it up and start all over again if need be)..

Fitzgerald went over and over his manuscript, word for word and page for page..

I can totally understand jamming out a work to the finish line to take that moment of well deserved pride in accomplishment. I do not want to combat that or throw it aside.

All I am really interested in furthering for myself is the following:

-That ability to rapidly backtrack and hit the runway again after doing so. I'm not always writing off of preplanned ideas and storyline.. sometimes storyline is occurring to me so rapidly that I want the opportunity to catch up with myself. I don't even know where the story is coming from sometimes.

-Straight to printer capability. (A port.. a wifi connection that fits this format, etc..) I love holding my work in my hands just the same way I'm sure a carpenter likes to lean against the foundation of his building as he progresses toward completion.

-Complete and total control of text-cursor placement. If I want my cursor between the i and the e in their I can place it there.

I would think any of these following names or names like them would be suitable to describe my dream device: ...

The Freewrite Draftsman

The Sculptor

The Executive

The Chonk

The Slugger

The Bunker

The Fitzgerald

The Clancy

The Dahl

...

It isn't for everyone.. but for some, perhaps the most tedious and obsessive creators who still see the benefits of a distraction free writing device... but were comfortable enough when the internet was removed and they could silence their alerts or avoid checking emails or Facebook, etc... the best distraction free writing device is one that would glue them to their work as a sculptor. As a crafter.

It might seem silly, but these simple stats from Astrohaus Freewrite are helping me a lot to develop a writing habit. As you can see, I use different Freewrite devices and also non-Freewrite writerdecks, such as an Alphasmart Neo2 and a Pomera, but I dump all those texts into Sprinter so that all adds up on Postbox.