Sunday, January 14, 2007
JDarkRoom -- distraction free writing, regardless your OS
A while back, I wrote about a piece of software called WriteRoom. It's a full-screen editor that enables you to write without distractions from other applications, the Web, or whatever. The only problem for me is that WriteRoom is a MacOS-only application.
But last autumn, I discovered a Java application called JDarkRoom. It works a lot like WriteRoom, but on any operating system that uses Java. In the crush of the last few months, I forgot about JDarkRoom until I was leafing through my bookmarks earlier today. I downloaded the latest version, fired it up, and started writing. In fact, I wrote the first draft of an article using JDarkRoom this afternoon.
Writing with it was so easy. I just started typing, and the words began to flow. No distractions, nothing. This is definitely a keeper.
But last autumn, I discovered a Java application called JDarkRoom. It works a lot like WriteRoom, but on any operating system that uses Java. In the crush of the last few months, I forgot about JDarkRoom until I was leafing through my bookmarks earlier today. I downloaded the latest version, fired it up, and started writing. In fact, I wrote the first draft of an article using JDarkRoom this afternoon.
Writing with it was so easy. I just started typing, and the words began to flow. No distractions, nothing. This is definitely a keeper.
