This is great, as when you need this info, it’s very easy to get out, but is otherwise out of sight.Īlso cool is that there is the ability to add basic formatting. All the things you might need, but not in your face distracting you. This gives you word count, page count, paragraph count, and character count, as well as percentage of Daily Goal accomplished and the time. When the mouse is brought to the bottom, you get this view: There are a number of nice little touches to this simple interface. This, I think, is rather clever, although it took me long enough to figure it all out. Once I stopped being stubborn and actually read the instructions on the website, I realized that the controls were not hidden by a key press, but by simply tossing your mouse at the top or bottom of the screen. I tried just about every ‘key combo’ that popped into my mind, but couldn’t find any controls.
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Unfortunately, how to change things like this is not immediately apparent. While not exactly the most attractive colors to start with, these are totally changeable.
The first time you launch FocusWriter, you get a plain, empty grey screen. I actually literally just installed it again last night, but today another bit of software showed up in our inbox, FocusWriter.įocusWriter suits me a bit more, because of a few key added features that is has over PyRoom and other available software. We’ve written about PyRoom before, a simple writer written in Python.
However, recently I’ve been turned onto writing software with little or no interface available. I turned to writing drafts by hand, and only used the computer for second and third drafts. As many of you are fully aware, it takes 2 clicks to get something as simple as a word count, which is horribly distracting to have to change your flow to grab the mouse and click the menu. Distractions abound, and it is difficult to really focus on what you’re doing even if you have the will power, simply because of the wide range of flashing indicators and bouncing icons and such.Įven the OpenOffice interface offers formatting and other distractions.
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While certainly full featured, typing in nothing more than a Word Processor is not, for everyone, entirely conducive to the writing process. Unfortunately I was never able to settle down into anything more specialized than OpenOffice. I wrote a number of plays and sketches, both for classes and to actually be produced, and I wrote all of them on Ubuntu. For those of you unaware, I received my Bachelors in Theater Arts just a few months ago.
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