I close my eyes and begin to type. In my mind, a mixed media of verbal and image information is passing through. Sometimes I am hearing the words that I am putting to the paper, other times I am seeing a page of writing which I am transcribing. The goal is two-fold: on the one hand, I am aiming for speed of production. On the other hand, I am harvesting focus.

I do most–nay, all–of my writing in Emacs, and realize that one of the things people will miss the most when coming from something like Microsoft Word or Libre Office is a spell checker. There are several great reasons not to worry about it. 1 Exercise Your Brain The fact is, dependance on spell checkers is bad for us. Just as handwriting is suffering because of the prevalence of typing, spelling is suffering because of dependence upon spell checkers.