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Agree. That tiny bit of convenience of having decent tools online is NOT worth the actual need to be online - along with all the distraction that implies.
I use Notepad++, along with a user defined language for "folding" - in other words, being able to just see the section headers. It takes care of 99% of what I need.
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Digital detox shall be part of every internet user's life. I like your compromises. As a side note with regards to writing and accessing documents offline, it's mental to see how many people use cloud-based services to do a simple thing that is writing. You shouldn't need an internet connection to write, cmon. To me the best writing setup - if you're willing to do typing and not handwriting - is to use plain text formats like markdown. No need for "no distraction mode" or any other thing...simply a blank page and the cursor. Then you can decide to upload files wherever you want or you can even do the chad thing of syncing them with a Versioning system like Git and self host or use a privacy oriented Git remote service. To me that's the best writing setup and it's innately offline.