Geek Posted September 30, 2011 Posted September 30, 2011 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/focuswriter-minimalist-writing.jpg" alt="FocusWriting minimalist distraction free writing app" title="focuswriter-minimalist-writing" width="620" height="349" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-21789" /></p> <p>Distraction-free writing apps are becoming increasingly popular and the appeal is easy to see, if you just want to write, why do you need to be surrounded by a <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/30/windows-8-vs-mac-os-x-and-ios/">gazillion buttons</a> and toolbars? These apps are fairly simple and there’s a slew of choices, many charge unreasonably high prices on the app store, but that’s why FocusWriter is so great – it’s a quality distraction-free writing app and it’s completely free (and open source).</p> <p>The appearance is highly customizable so you can set whatever font and background works best for you, do this by dropping from the “Settings” menu and selecting “Themes”. Outside of the eyecandy, there are also a variety of genuinely useful writing features, and it’ll keep track of word count, page count, paragraph count, character count, as well as the ability to set writing goals either by time or by words written. You see all these details by hovering over the bottom of the FocusWriter screen (see screenshot below), so they’re not always visible or in your way. Really the worst thing about FocusWriter is it’s ugly icon, but if that’s your only complaint about an app then you’ve got it pretty good.</p> <p><a href="http://gottcode.org/focuswriter/">Download FocusWriter for free</a></p> <p>The app is cross-platform compatible, so you can run it in Mac OS X, Windows, or Linux. </p> <p>Sidenote: For those that are interested, the top screenshot is using a slightly modified version of the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/wood-floors.jpg">wood floors wallpaper (JPG)</a> that I also use as <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/27/change-background-wallpaper-of-dashboard-mac-os-x-lion/">my custom Dashboard background image</a>. The bottom two images are default themes.</p> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/focuswriter-theme.jpg" alt="FocusWriter theme" title="focuswriter-theme" width="620" height="374" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-21794" /> <span id="more-21788"></span> <img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/focuswriter-mac.jpg" alt="FocusWriter for Mac" title="focuswriter-mac" width="620" height="312" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-21790" /></p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/hB0FyvBNOGH97Uc9ohxUBocNuhc/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/hB0FyvBNOGH97Uc9ohxUBocNuhc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/hB0FyvBNOGH97Uc9ohxUBocNuhc/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/hB0FyvBNOGH97Uc9ohxUBocNuhc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=JnHHhb3lcf0:5yU_c7OO0as:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=JnHHhb3lcf0:5yU_c7OO0as:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=JnHHhb3lcf0:5yU_c7OO0as:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=JnHHhb3lcf0:5yU_c7OO0as:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=JnHHhb3lcf0:5yU_c7OO0as:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=JnHHhb3lcf0:5yU_c7OO0as:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=JnHHhb3lcf0:5yU_c7OO0as:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/JnHHhb3lcf0" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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