Full-screen writing apps (Writeroom for Windows)
Posted by Jeff March 08, 2008
Recently I was looking for a tool to put up a full-screen writing surface: green letters on a black background.
This is the sort of tool programmers love to write — like Diff tools. I found a half dozen tools, some free and cross-platform.
For now, I’m using Q10. Its lean size (357K) appeals to me, and it has autosave. Q10 plays typewriter sounds (sampled from the movie Amelie!), which can be charming or..annoying. I removed them by changing SoundsEnabled=False in q10.ini. The lineup:
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