FEATURES
NO DISTRACTIONS
Full-screen editing. Get free from your computer and its distractions. Writemonkey's full-screen mode hides it all away leaving just you and your text behind. Do more with less!
CUSTOMIZABLE LOOK AND FEEL
Choose your own colors, fonts, and page layout. Scale up your text for easy reading, save your favorite color schemes ...
STANDARD AND CLEAN TEXT FORMAT
For maximum portability your work is stored in standard text files. Writemonkey will recognize virtually all international characters. Choose different encodings (UTF-8, Unicode, ANSII ...)
SMALL, FAST AND STABLE
No installation necessary. Just copy files and directories on any folder on your machine. Writemonkey is very fast and responsive. The main executable is less than 500 KB in size.
ACCESSIBILITY
Open files from Windows context menu, easily switch between full screen and normal mode, toggle recent files with CTRL+TAB, quick peep behind when in full screen mode (unique feature) ...
ADVANCED STATISTICS
Check number of written words, characters with or without spaces, pages ... Check your progress.
PROGRESS BAR (unique feature)
Intuitive and pleasantly austere progress bar for those who write stuff which needs to be of certain length. Journalists, writers ...
BOOKMARKS
Simple but handy bookmark system. Insert bookmark string anywhere in your text and use CTRL+B to toggle them.
JUMPS (unique feature)
Use an innovative tool for navigating documents. You can jump using: Bookmarks, headlines or paragraphs.
REPOSITORY (unique feature)
Document based repository mode. Store your notes, unfinished parts, data clippings or URL's into the same text file. Simply toggle between main text and repository by pressing ALT + R.
TYPING SOUNDS
Travel back to the future with realistic typewriter sounds, use other sound schemes or create your own.
BACKUPS AND HISTORY
Never lose your work with advanced backup/history system. The backup files are out of your way (no annoying .bak files in working directory!), but you can browse them easily if necessary. Cure for accidental deletes and save based disasters.
AUTO SAVE
Set number of seconds between auto saves.
CUSTOMIZABLE PRINTING
You can print with current screen settings or use print specific formatting - font, line spacing, paragraph spacing and text alignment. Printing is "selection aware" i.e. you can print only currently selected text. Print preview is also available.
SPELL CHECKER
Spell check whole document or selection with powerful spelling engine and OpenOffice based dictionaries. All major languages are available for download. You can even request additional dictionaries.
MULTI MONITOR SUPPORT
You can use extended Windows desktop feature (in Windows display properties) and run Writemonkey in full screen on any monitor connected to your computer.
INTEGRATION WITH FIREFOX
Writemonkey is compatible with great Firefox extension It's All Text. Use it when writing text for your blogs, for web based e-mail ... It works with any textarea on any web page. To use this extension set Writemonkey default character encoding to UTF-8 and check out Always save on exit (Preferences / Open&Save tab).
MONKEY QUOTES
Be amused by random monkey wisdoms in splash screen. More than 1000 in database and growing ...
LAST BUT NOT LEAST
Writemonkey is completely free, but you can donate by following PAYPAL icon on the web site.