Comments on: Write In Peace With These Distraction-Free Editors

By: Brenden Barlow

Brenden Barlow — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:55:06 +0000

while i dont write enough for this to be of much use right now, i feel in the future it will be very helpful.

By: Nikhil Chandak

Nikhil Chandak — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 07:11:15 +0000

Q10 seems to be cool !

By: Ari Lont

Ari Lont — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 01:43:01 +0000

I’ve been using WriteMonkey and like it so far. But a further look on some tools mention here makes me want to give them a try and TextRoom really grabs my attention. Thanks

By: Jo Brenden

Jo Brenden — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 13:15:00 +0000

What is the best distraction free ONLINE text editor? I loved mytextfile.com, but it appers it has gone dead.
I am looking for a online text editor with black backgrund, small font and wide space for writing.

By: Paul Stewart

Paul Stewart — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:19:09 +0000

I agree.

By: Paul Stewart

Paul Stewart — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:18:07 +0000

What about vi or VIM? I use it in the command line, and it’s the (IMHO) the easist and fastest way to write.

By: luccava

luccava — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 19:24:07 +0000

Great, I’ll take a look on these. Thank you!

By: Aaron Couch

Aaron Couch — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 00:14:51 +0000

Joel, I actually haven’t had too bad of luck with Ommwriter, although I haven’t used it extensively so I don’t know how valid my opinion is haha.

By the way Saikat, this was a great article!

By: Steven Kim

Steven Kim — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 07:26:16 +0000

Just might jump into this :)

By: Luke Brannon

Luke Brannon — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:08:17 +0000

I’ve never tried any of these as whenever I write I tend to use Office, however, these do seem great alternatives for those creative writers who can get distracted easily (myself included) as well as some of them being able to work on really old machines which again helps in the battle to upcycle old computers into making them working machines. imagine you had an old cheap netbook, Office may run slow but one of these variants or one of my favourites Notepad ++ (due to it’s programming abilities) on the netbook will work perfectly as a portable writers journal.

By: Aaron Couch

Aaron Couch — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 21:06:27 +0000

These are excellent recommendations! I’ve found them to be very useful for writing that I can just dive into, which is typically creative writing for me. But for writing where I am referring to references on the internet such as blog posts, articles or research papers (when I was in college), I found programs such as these hard to use because I typically have two windows side by side – one with my writing, the other with my resource(s).

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 03:18:16 +0000

Well, the simplest, cleanest editing screen possible is the one that comes with emacs so configured.

Yeah, sure, I know it is also an operating system, but that comes in handy sometimes. Like, if you have to sort some text in your document, select the text, alt-shift-| and now you can enter a bash command on that text (sort to sort it, wc to count the words, whatever). Meanwhile, when you are typing you’ve just got this screen and a minimal one line menu bar which you can turn off.

emacs. the one true editor.

By: Ashutosh Dave

Ashutosh Dave — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 17:47:18 +0000

But it can be evaluated for free with all the features!! So it is free!!

By: Saikat Basu

Saikat Basu — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 10:13:00 +0000

It is a good code editor and unfortunately not free!

By: Saikat Basu

Saikat Basu — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 05:33:21 +0000

I agree with you there completely. But one good thing about these minimalistic editors is that the learning curve isn’t steep at all. It’s just fire them up and write.