Writing original material requires complete attention. For writers, distractions are very bothersome and counterproductive. Here to help you obtain a distraction-free writing interface from within your browser is a tool called Pillarbox. Pillarbox is a free to use tool that comes as a browser extension for Google Chrome. The extension provides you with a distraction-free [...]
Have you ever tried to guess whether the author of a piece was male or female? If yes, then your task has been made much easier thanks to a web service called HackerFactor Gender Guesser. HackerFactor Gender Guesser is a free to use web service that determines the gender of the author of a piece [...]
Random Poem Generator is a fun tool that lets you poemize any webpage by just providing a URL. Once you submit the URL and select one of three rhyming styles (Haiku, Alternating, Clerihew), the tool will scan the webpage and organize the text it finds into a particular rhyming style. The tool is just for [...]
If writing is one of your hobbies then you probably often type up your work on your computer. But the various notifications and distractions from computer applications make it difficult to focus on your writing. PenZen aims to solve that issue. PenZen is a free to use web service that lets you type in a [...]
Making a citation or attribution online, be it for a school paper, a blog, or a straight news article, is very important. It is a big part of recognizing the ideas and thoughts of other writers that helped shape your piece of writing. However, the Internet has not yet found a way to easily cite [...]
Many of us get the urge to start writing a book, but let that urge go because the task seems too daunting. Write.li is a new web based app that can help by providing you with all the tools you need to write a book online. You can add and view chapters, add notes and [...]
Most of us would agree that writing a daily journal summarizing what the day was all about is a good practice. However, only a few of us are able to do it consistently (procrastination being the obvious reason.) Current.im is an interesting web based service that encourages you to create a daily diary using just [...]
Working on your next big-screen masterpiece? Then you should check out Rawscripts. Rawscripts is a script writing program that works in the cloud. This tool solves the problem of setting up a screenwriting software and sycning files when working with different computers. You can save your scripts, notes, and complete draft history as well as [...]
Some people like to write lengthy pages about how their day was spent but many shy away from the task due to its time-consuming nature. 280Daily is a free micro diary that allows you to record your day’s activities in 280 characters or less so you can always read it later, archive it and even [...]
Most text editing applications leave the taskbar and similar items visible. While writing, these visible items distract you. If you are looking for a way to peacefully type in a distraction-free writing environment, then you should pay a visit to Koi Writer Text Editor. Koi Writer Text Editor is a free to use text editing [...]