Version: This one. WriteRoom is more or less the epitome of a distraction-free writing space. The screen is black. The text is green. It’s you and a little blinking cursor (less old-school colours are also options, but less fun). The feel seems a lot closer to writing on a piece of paper on an otherwise…Read More
Google Docs operates in the cloud – the world online that you don’t need your computer for, as long as you have a computer. Personally, this always made me a little nervous, until my hard drive died and the things I had in Google Docs (and there were not many) were all I had left….Read More
Mac Notepad (version 6.5) is, on the surface, a text editor with a funky way of organizing files (notes). The blurb on the site says, “Mac Notepad lets you save and organize any piece of text you may want to be at hand: you can paste it in, drag it from other applications, drop it…Read More
The philosophy of Write or Die is in the name: you write, or else.
Version: Word 2004 for Mac Microsoft Word is one of those things that, at some point, everyone uses. It doesn’t really matter whether or not you actually own it, because it’s almost inevitable that someone you work with will, and you will eventually be faced with it’s cheery gray demeanor. This is one of the…Read More
I’ve embarked on a project to find the most effective writing software.
In April’s Vanity Fair, an article on Iceland’s economy discusses one unique problem that expansion faces: elves.