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Writers in the last century had their white pages and the ink pen.
It was a medium which made for straightforward penning down.
We in the present age have a lot more.
Specialized writing tools like MS Word or any other, with their bundle of help aids.
In-built dictionaries, spell checkers, format commands and what not.
We have seen how easy it is to become a slave to these powerful tools.
Perhaps, the most well known of these isDarkroomfor Windows andWriteroomfor the Mac.
WriteMonkeyis another tool for writers to toy around with.
Firstly, WriteMonkey is a lightweight download at just about 1.4MB.
Extracted into a folder, it does not need an installation.
That makes it usable as a portable tool.
Clicking on the WriteMonkey exe icon brings up a black screen occupying the entire screen.
The text color is in high contrast green.
It gives the creative writer some tools to make his workflow a bit smoother.
Right click and you get a menu with all features listed.
Let’s take a look at some of them.
Toggle between full screen view and a windowed lookwith a single click.
TheRepositoryholds all unfinished notes or drafts in the same text file.
Think of it as a scratch pad for your writing.
Spell-checkusing the inbuilt engine and dictionaries.
A lot of the major languages are available for download as are additional dictionaries.
UseJumpsto navigate between different parts of your document.
Togglesegment focusand display only a section of a document while hiding the rest.
In long documents, this helps to focus and work on a particular area.
Check your writing progress with theProgressbar which can be set to a definite word count.
it’s possible for you to also set a timer to limit your writing within a certain time.
Lookupinternet resources like dictionaries, thesauruses, search engines, Google images etc from the right click menu.
WriteMonkey is completely configurable.
ThePreferencesdialogs let you set up WriteMonkey for your way of working.
The look of the interface can be changes via the background color and the font colors.
Or turn it all off for some silent work.
Well, all these features don’t make WriteMonkey seem that minimal anymore.
The other mobility enhancing feature is its portability.
Documents are saved in the TXT format and thus can be opened by any word processors.
How does it compare with Darkroom or any other stripped down text app you might have used?
