WriteMonkey – Full-screen text editor without distractions for creative writing

January 23, 2010, Category: Software

WriteMonkey text editor If you want to type your creative thoughts on a computer screen that has nothing else on it but only your own typed text, then WriteMonkey is the right software for it. It allows you to type without any distractions since it allows full-screen typing and without any distractions – no icons, no pictures, no other windows, etc. No whistles and bells, just empty screen (of course, with your own typed text). You can concentrate fully on what you’re typing. While WriteMonkey allows you to type your contents on a simple full-screen, it also has advanced word-processing features if you wish to use them. Moreover, it is an absolutely free software.

WriteMonkey - full screen text typing without distractions

WriteMonkey is light, fast, and handy software with a simple interface. Its full-screen mode hides everything except your typed text. But, you can easily switch to the normal mode of the software if you so wish to use the advanced features of the software.

WriteMonkey stores your text in standard text files and you can type virtually all international characters.

It supports several useful and advanced features such as auto-save, backups and history, spell-checker, customized printing, multi-monitor support, lookups (quickly open web resources such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauruses, etc.), shorthand support to automatically replace small text with pre-defined longer text, an innovative jumps tool to navigate to different parts of the document, a document based repository mode, timed writing, advanced statistics, etc.

WriteMonkey also supports several keyboard shortcuts. It allows you to customize several features, for example, have a look at the following Preferences dialog box:

WriteMonkey - Preferences

It does not require any installation; just copy the program files and directories in any folder on your computer and start using it. It uses .NET 3.5 framework for running it, which can be downloaded freely from the Microsoft site. This framework is already available on Windows Vista and Windows 7. This framework may already be present on many Windows XP machines also, but if not present, you can freely download it.

Download: You can download Writemonkey from here.

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