Like most writers of my age, I used Word for a long time. Developers understand that people don't want a Word replacement, they just want these other apps to be Word. Just like people want Pixelmator to be Photoshop. A lot of people have used Word for years, and don't want to deal with the subscriptions now, and so there's a lot of push for developers to make an editor that is competition with Word directly. There are lots of word processors out there, but they have the same issues that Pixelmator suffers from. But instead of doing all the crazy simples in Markdown, it understands how a typical screenplay looks, and how dialogue and scenes are done, and takes the cues from your headings. Fountain is based on it, and just lets you write a screenplay, and then does all the formatting for you. You can also tweak Markdown to output differently. With Markdown, all you use is the keyboard, and whatever shortcuts an app might have for you to use to make it so you don't have to type the codes for things like links and images. This gets even more complicated on iOS because you have to select text with your fingers and hit the correct buttons. Or I need to make this a blockquote, how do I do that again in Word? I can just do that with a > on each line in Markdown too. If I use Markdown, I can just use two **'s surrounding the text. Like I want to do bold text, so I have to select my stuff, then hit the command or use my mouse and press the key. It's the problem that you have to think too much. On the other hand: those features are useful and help me get my text written.ĭistraction-free is not necessarily the bloat. There are lots of things to distract me – mainly the web – and it's not the lack of features that will help me. I have seen no new full-featured word processor lately and it's disappointing.ĭoes anybody feel like me? That these distraction-free word processors may be useful for some but really nonsense for lots of people? I don't get distracted by the features of my word processor. It seems to me that developers have released lots of distraction-free writing tools recently because these apps are easier to develop and do not take too much time or effort, more than because they really believe these apps are better tools for writing. We have Microsoft Word Apple Pages (not really as it lacks features) Mellel Nisus Writer Pro and LibreOffice/OpenOffice Writer. Meanwhile, there are just a few word processors that have a full set of features. The list of software is long, here are a few: So, these software are supposedly better because they would allow writers to keep focus on what really matters (writing) without being distracted by features. This lack of features is considered a feature itself.įeatures would distract writers and make them lose focus. There are lots of software calling themselves aimed at distraction-free writing, with very few features. I noticed that there is a trend for distraction-free writing software.
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