The WriteFlow blog
Short essays grounded in published research. Sources are linked. Drafts stay off this page.
The original 1986 study and a meta-analysis of 146 experiments. The effect is real, small, and easy to oversell. Here are the numbers the papers actually report.
In 2019, Ink & Switch argued that the copy of your work on your own device should be the primary one. Here is what they actually proposed, and what WriteFlow does with it.
Sophie Leroy's 2009 experiments found that an unfinished task follows you into the next one. A writing page with less chrome is a practical response, not a mood.