About

Wastebasket is an app for drafting words, not editing them.

No spell check, no grammar check, no AI, no formatting. You can't even make something bold. That's on purpose. Wastebasket lets you get the words down first, and then you take them somewhere else to edit.

There's a Mac app coming too. Same idea, except it can actually switch your Mac's network off while you write — Wi-Fi, Ethernet, all of it. Turn your laptop into an offline writing device, and back into your laptop when you're done. Have a look at wastebasket.app.

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• Your data IS NOT stored in the cloud. Everything you write is stored on your device by your browser. If you quit the app, turn off your computer and come back later, it should still be there, but no promises. Save those words if you think you might want them later.
• This app works offline so you can use it on an airplane or one of those places that Instagram people go where there's no Wi-Fi.
• Wastebasket doesn't track you. I don't know who you are, I don't have any idea what you're writing, and I don't collect or sell any data about you.
• Wastebasket is open source. This means, unlike most software on your computer, you can modify or create derivatives of Wastebasket as long as those works use the same license. Check out Wastebasket on GitHub.

Credits

Wastebasket is made with ❤ by Michael Verdi.

It's open source under the GNU Affero General Public License v3. You can read it, change it, and build on it, as long as what you build carries the same license. The code is on GitHub, and the license is here.

Questions, bugs, or a story about a truly shitty draft: hello@michaelverdi.com