Distraction Free Writing
Download Squad pointed me to this Mac application called WriteRoom. The trick is simple: fill the page with ONLY the screen you’ll be typing on, and do autosaves the whole time you’re typing. It’s perfect if you need to buckle down and focus on writing and can’t afford the distractions.
I like that you can edit the colors, the fonts, and everything about the look and feel, but that at the end of it all, you have this uber-simple interface. I changed the font, set the color to a more golden color, and then I was in good shape. It’s a great app and worth trying, especially if you toggle to full screen mode right away.
Any Windows users know a similar free app?
WriteRoom - [Hog Bay Software via Download Squad]
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Herb says on July 1st, 2006 at 12:03 am
Alright, it’s Microsoft Word, but you could do all that through the View -> Full Screen command.
Erik Mallinson says on July 1st, 2006 at 11:16 am
Openoffice.org does a full screen mode thing too. Essentially there are still page margins and a button to turn off full screen mode.
Geoffroy Magnan says on July 1st, 2006 at 12:30 pm
I think Evernote (http://www.evernote.com) has a full screen note edit mode, even in the free version
Peter Wood says on July 2nd, 2006 at 10:27 am
Great idea! But be sure you turn off your email notifications as well or the distractions will continue.
Murray @ PlanetThoughtful says on July 2nd, 2006 at 9:10 pm
Oddly enough, I occasionally find myself hankering for the ’simplicity’ of using a word processor like WordPerfect 5 (or was it 5.1?) back in the days of DOS. Just you and the word processor, unless you were using very tricky TSR applications or rather cutting-edge DOS windowing applications. Even the simplicity of the look and feel of WordPerfect in those days would be nice, which is what the screenshot of WriteRoom evokes for me when I look at it. I sincerely wish there was a WinXP version.
ChrisBrogan says on July 3rd, 2006 at 3:53 pm
Turns out Download Squad followed up with a WriteRoom clone for Windows, called DarkRoom. There you go.
And it really is a *little* different than all the other suggestions.
Power Persuasion says on July 30th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
Yes I have one such killer app. It’s called My Pad and the MontBlanc.
Does wonders for speed writing!
انمي says on August 14th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
tanks
nasrettin hoca says on February 23rd, 2008 at 6:36 am
nice.
Domatessuyu says on March 29th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Thank you very nice