WriteMonkey: A Text Editor Gone Zen
Robert Curto has created WriteMonkey: a free full-screen text editor aiming to help those of us apt to get easily distracted. Just put everything else behind and write. No fancy fonts, no fancy colors (except the customizable foreground/background). Think of it as a fullscreen, old-school typewriter for modern people.
“For creative writing I prefer text editors over word processors. Less distraction. You don’t think about bold, italics or alignment. That’s for a second or even third stage. And the full screen editor is the best. It is your heart/mind and the empty screen. Everything comes from emptiness. This sort of software is called Zenware.”
Download it for free at WriteMonkey.com.
By the way, if you want a more generic app for the Mac to help you focus there’s always Enjoy The Silence by Frozen Heads Software, making sure everything behind your currently selected app is hidden in serene darkness.)