If you spend a lot of time writing on your Mac, but find yourself continually distracted by formatting options and the myriad buttons that clutter the workspace then WriteRoom may well be the answer to your prayers.
Of course, this is not going to be everyone’s cup of tea – for me it was exactly what I needed.
When you fire up WriteRoom, you’re a greeted by nothing but a full screen black canvas with a blinking green cursor — it’s a thing of beauty. Moving the cursor to the bottom edge of the screen reveals the name of the document and the word count. Moving the cursor to the top edge reveals the menu bar, and pressing the esc key toggles the full screen mode on or off.
There are other options such as live spellchecking and the ability to change the background and text colour (I personally really enjoy the default style).
There isn’t much more to the app, but then again, there isn’t suppose to be – it’s suppose to be a simple canvas to allow writers to put their thoughts down quickly without any distractions.
I would highly recommend this software, but I know many will find the $24.99 price tag too steep for such limited functionality. Alternatively you could try Bean (insert link for Bean) which is completely free and also offers full screen distraction free writing.
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