WRITEMONKEY 0.8 [yellow on green]
Zenware for full screen distraction free creative writing. No whistles and bells, just empty screen, you and your words. WriteMonkey is light, fast, and perfectly handy for those who enjoy the simplicity of a typewriter but live in modern times.
For maximum portability your documents are stored in standard text file. You can choose your own colors, fonts, and page layout. Scale up your text for easy reading.
Version 0.8 brings you the intuitive and pleasantly austere progress bar for those who write stuff which needs to be of certain length. Journalists, writers ...
... your text document can be divided into two parts. The main text part is where your writings reside. The second part is repository for storing notes, unfinished parts, data clippings or URL's which are automatically recognized as active links and are clickable. You can easily toggle between two modes and move parts of text back and forth ...
... use innovative Jumps tool to navigate through the documents ...
... correct your spelling errors with integrated Spell checker.
WRITEMONKEY IS FREE SOFTWARE, BUT YOU CAN DONATE BY FOLLOWING THE PAYPAL ICON AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE.
USERS SAID ...
... After shopping many distraction-free writing environments I stumbled upon yours. I'm so glad I did! I love the repository feature, and the fact that I can use either full screen or window view. WriteMonkey is exactly what I was looking for ... (Adriane L. Criderman)
... First of all, thanks for taking your time writing this great piece of software! I've been looking for a Windows equivalent of Writeroom for OSX for a long time. Writemonkey is by far the best alternative I've come across. It's true to it's promise; simple, intuitive, and clutter-free. And it works flawlessly. This kind of distraction-free writing environment is just what I need for taking notes in college, where staying focused is paramount. I wouldn't mind using it at work either. (I work part-time as a journalist.) ... (Mats Bleikelia)
... Congratulation for your fantastic software WRITEMONKEY! It's a very good & cool job. I use your software everyday ... This kind of software is popular and you have a good chance to make THE "full screen writing software" ... (Sophie Monde)
...I tried WM and I love the way that repository mode was conceived and executed. I like that it is embedded in the same txt file; the invert colors feature is a nice touch as well ... (Paulo Brabo)
... I took a look at Writemonkey and it also seems to be very good - similar to both Darkroom and Q10. I like the splash screen with quotes and the available preferences (the 'try luck' option is good too) .. (Brian Darvell)
... Hello, I like the program after playing with it for 5 mins, thankyou ... By the way the different coloured paragraghs in Jumpbar are lovely :) ... (Ben)
and one not so good but funny:
... by pressing a random color combination of text color and background color ... 95% of the so-created combinations produce a very fine mixture of headache and vomiting ... (Richard Norden)