WriteMonkey 0.9
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Date Added: |
Jul 23, 2010 05:39 PM |
Publisher's Description: |
Zenware for full screen distraction free creative writing. No whistles and bells, just empty screen, you and your words. WriteMonkey is light, fast, and perfectly handy for those who enjoy the simplicity of a typewriter but live in modern times.
FEATURES:
NO DISTRACTIONS
Full-screen editing. Get free from your computer and its distractions. Writemonkey's full-screen mode hides it all away leaving just you and your text behind. Do more with less!
SMALL, FAST, STABLE
No installation necessary. Just copy files and directories in any folder on your machine. Writemonkey is very fast and responsive. The main executable is less than 1,5 MB in size.
PORTABLE
Put Writemonkey installation on USB key and use it on any computer.
COMPLETELY CUSTOMIZABLE
Choose your own colors, fonts, and page layout ... and all other aspects of the program. Customize info bar with the info items you want. Scale up your text for easy reading, save different settings profiles ...
STANDARD AND CLEAN TEXT FORMAT
For maximum portability your work is stored in standard text files. Writemonkey will recognize virtually all international characters. Choose different encodings (UTF-8, Unicode, ANSII ...)
ACCESSIBILITY
Open files from Windows context menu, easily switch between full screen and normal mode, toggle recent files with CTRL+TAB, quick peep behind when in full screen mode (unique feature), quit to system tray ...
KEYBOARD FRIENDLY
Writemonkey is keyboard friendly software - all commands can be deployed with simple keyboard shortcuts. Even things like scrolling and selecting the text. If you prefer mouse, wm will play along ...
MARKUP EXPORT
Use text markup rules (*bold*, _italic_ ...) when you write and export formated text to MS Word, default web browser or print directly from Writemonkey (unique feature). You can use Markdown or Textile standard.
CSS TEMPLATES FOR MARKUP EXPORT
Use (or create your own) templates to put formatted documents on paper
ADVANCED STATISTICS
Check number of written words, characters with or without spaces, pages ... Check your progress. Second partial counter to monitor current session progress with longer texts.
COMPLETELY CUSTOMIZABLE INFO BAR
If complete emptiness of the screen distracts you, enable austere Info bar that gives you some basic info - current time, file name in use, progress string, status string and notices. Dock it to the top or bottom of the screen, choose one of 5 horizontal positions for each info item. Customize info bar font size and opacity.
VISUAL PROGRESS BAR (unique feature)
Intuitive and pleasantly austere progress bar for those who write stuff which needs to be of certain length. Journalists, writers ... Highly customizable.
TIMED WRITING
Set timer to limit your writing to a certain time. Optionaly put timer marker on progress bar (unique feature).
BOOKMARKS
Simple but handy bookmark system. Insert bookmark string anywhere in your text and use ALT+B or ALT+N to jump through them.
JUMPS (unique feature)
Use an innovative tool for navigating documents. Browse by bookmarks or by all paragraphs using wild card (* and ? characters) enabled filtering. Provide your own jump masks that match your text formatting style.
REPOSITORY (unique feature)
Document based repository mode. Store your notes, unfinished parts, data clippings or URL's into the same text file. Simply toggle between main text and repository by pressing ALT + R.
REPLACEMENTS
Use trigger text as a special character replacement or as a shorthand to insert predefined strings of text such as signatures, addresses, date-time stamps etc.
LOOKUPS (unique feature)
Quickly open various web resources (dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauruses ...) while writing. Define your own resources and corresponding keyboard shortcuts.
SEGMENT FOCUS (unique feature)
Ability to show only a segment of the current text and hide the rest. Good for longer & structured texts - Will help you to focus on the part you are working on. No long scrolls ... You can focus on different things using different shortcuts.
TYPING SOUNDS
Travel back to the past with realistic typewriter sounds, use other sound schemes (available on official web site) or create your own.
TYPEWRITER SCROLLING
A new ergonomic feature that will allow your typing words to appear fixed at the certain vertical position of the screen.
BACKUPS AND HISTORY
Never lose your work with advanced backup/history system. The backup files are out of your way (no annoying .bak files in working directory!), but you can browse them easily if necessary. Cure for accidental deletes and save based disasters.
AUTO SAVE
Set number of seconds between auto saves.
CUSTOMIZABLE PRINTING
You can print with current screen settings or use print specific formatting - font, line spacing, paragraph spacing and text alignment. Printing is "selection aware" i.e. you can print only currently selected text. Print preview is also available.
SPELL CHECKER
Spell check whole document or selection with powerful spelling engine and OpenOffice based dictionaries. All major languages are available for download. You can even request additional dictionaries.
MULTI MONITOR SUPPORT
You can use extended Windows desktop feature (in Windows display properties) and run Writemonkey in full screen on any monitor connected to your computer.
INTEGRATION WITH FIREFOX
Writemonkey is compatible with great Firefox extension It's All Text. Use it when writing text for your blogs, for web based e-mail ... It works with any textarea on any web page. To use this extension set Writemonkey default character encoding to UTF-8 and check out Always save on exit (Preferences / Open&Save tab).
MONKEY QUOTES
Be amused by random monkey wisdom in splash screen. More than 1000 quotes in database and growing ...
HIDDEN FEATURES
Write monkey has some quirky hidden Easter egg features which are available only to donors (owners of wm.donated file). Two of them are "flow mode" and "tweet from writemonkey".
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Documentation: |
http://writemonkey.com/ |
Last Download: |
Apr 12, 2024 07:24 PM
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Downloads: |
559 |
OS: |
Windows |
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