Writing in the Dark
January 15, 2007The other day I pointed my colleague Paul Miller, an avid Mac disciple, at WriteRoom.
For Mac users who enjoy the simplicity of a typewriter, but live in the digital world. WriteRoom is a full-screen, distraction-free writing environment. Unlike the cluttered word processors you’re used to, WriteRoom is just about you and your text.
Just the job for someone concentrating on writing a document in the increasingly distracting world we operate in. Paul seems quite enthusiastic about it, so I took another look at it to find that it has a Windows sister application – DarkRoom.
DarkRoom seems to be a couple of revisions behind WriteRoom, and doesn’t seem as capable of freezing out interruptions like the Outlook you’ve-got-mail pop-up, but next time I need to attack a white paper or a report I may well give it a try.
