![]() ![]() Word is great text editor, no doubt, but its exact opposite of distraction-free editor. My favorite thing about the app was Zen Mode. Plus there is no focus and typewriter mode. It has plenty of nice (hidden unless needed) functions. Q10 is also nice and is in single file, so is nicely portable. Byword is far superior, especially if you’re running a blog.īut it’s still not enough, especially for the price. That said, one factor clearly in Typed’s favor is that Realmac is an established company with a good reputation, and it offers a 6-month “no questions asked” return policy for software. This, coupled with the 7-day free trial, should make it easier for those still curious about Typed to try the app without too much worry. Typed for Mac ($24.99) is available now from the Realmac online store. It requires OS X 10.9 Mavericks or newer. So try it out and let me know what you think of its ingeniously simple design in the comments below.The version reviewed is Typed 1.0.1, the latest available update at the time of publication. It’s also available for Mac, PC, and (interestingly) the iPad. They do have a minimum of $5.11, which, for a writing program as beautiful and useful as this, is a criminal steal, but I’d advocate giving them a bit more as they are just a team of five or so fellow writers. The developers give you the option to pay as much or as little (within reason) as you want. While the program isn’t free, it also doesn’t exactly have a set price. It’s great for really losing yourself in the landscape of your writing and helps immensely when it comes to finding that focus so many of us lack. Also, in addition to the music, OmmWriter also has a variety of keystroke sounds that you can activate, making every “if, and, or but” you type sound like it was pecked onto the page by an old typewriter or a digital thingamajig. Having the music included in the program also cuts out the need to have an internet browser or Spotify open, thus lessening the chances of you losing focus and wandering around the music stations all day. OmmWriter includes a variety of loopable soundscapes that work quite effectively to transport you from the bustling coffee shop you find yourself in to a whispering forest or an ethereal cloud, cutting out the distractions of people chatting around you and silverware being dropped. ![]() As some of you know, I’m a huge proponent of listening to music while writing (no lyrics, though!). Perhaps my favorite thing about OmmWriter, however, is its inclusion of sound. It also comes loaded with a variety of backgrounds over which you type, allowing you to reside within a setting that is designed to help you escape from whatever busy place you might find yourself in and set the mood of your writing right alongside the words themselves. OmmWriter is a word processing program that, among other things, gets rid of the clutter of menus that plague so many writing programs out there. One of the best tools for this (and my personal favorite) is: There are, however, tools out there to help draw you into the zone and sneakily convince you to focus on the work in front of you. Finding that focus, that headspace you need to occupy within your story, takes quite a bit of effort. How you convince yourself to focus needs to come from you and not from the unplugged ethernet cord on the ground beside you. Still, some go further – choosing to dig up their old MS-DOS computer and pounding their manuscript out on that! There are hundreds of different ways people recommend you situate yourself to avoid any outside stimulation, but the fact of the matter is it largely comes down to your own discipline. I don’t think unplugging is the best means of staying away from distractions (as I often have to cruise online for bits and pieces of research material), but it’s not a terrible one either. Distractions come in all shapes and sizes, from children and pets to internet addictions and clickbait movies and even the bloody laundry! Most people recommend unplugging from the internet and finding a place where you won’t be tempted to check emails or twitter messages. There is one bit of advice I’ve found out there, however, that seems to ring true regardless of who’s saying it: You’ve really got to be careful as a lot of that advice out there might be well-intentioned, but it might also not fit within style of your project or your voice. Everything from what music to listen to, to the proper use of commas and other punctuation, to the polarizing love/hate relationship the internet seems to have with adverbs can be found spattered across blogs by the thousands. ![]() ![]() Head off into the depths of the internet for writing advice and chances are you’ll come back with a whole lot of contradicting instructions and a new list of neologisms that make no sense when you really think about them. ![]()
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