Filed under: personal | Tags: minimalism, ommwriter, word processing, writing
Electro^Plankton has saved my life. Yesterday, right as I was blogging about switching back to paper, he (she?) posted about a minimal new Word Processor called Omm Writer, which is currently in beta for Macs. It is glorious.
It’s not clunky and awful the way Word for Mac is. You just drag the corners of the box to resize your page, and then once you’re typing the box goes away altogether, leaving you with a clean white space. All you see are your own words, just like in olden times. (You can also set Omm Writer to make noises when you type, and you can even have New Age-y music playing in the background. But I don’t use headphones when I’m typing and I haven’t been alone enough to experience that in full yet. I’m guessing I’ll be less into that; New Age-y music makes me nervous.)
My only complaint is that there’s no way to check word counts. But there are advantages to that, too. And best of all, you can’t access your dock without minimizing the application. It’s not convenient for news blogging, but when trying to, say, edit projects you’ve been working on for months it’s a great deterrent from, say, checking Twitter every thirty seconds. I wrote so much yesterday I can’t evan tell you how happy I am.
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hmmm, minus the music, writeroom does the same-ish thing. its initial settings are sort of matrix-y (green text on black) but they’re easy to reset.
Comment by [dave] December 19, 2009 @ 4:41 pm