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The actual time alarm is for when you want to get down to watch your favourite TV programme, or make a phone call, or have dinner, etc. You can set this either to an actual time or to a ‘delay’. Why couldn’t Word have a feature like this?Īnother feature is the alarm. The next time I start one of these Sessions, it automatically opens the last document I was working on, and even places the cursor at the point I reached when I saved it and quit. By starting a new Session for each of them, and then starting a new document in each Session, I cause a wondrous thing to happen. Let’s suppose I’m working on three bits of writing. This is potentially a handy feature, although, disappointingly, any changes you make to your goal apply to every Session. You can set your goal for the day in the Preferences menu, either as the amount of time you spend or the number of words you produce. Move the pointer to the bottom of the screen and you will see useful stats like your word count and what percentage of your goal you’ve achieved. You don’t even get to see the menus or icons of FocusWriter itself unless you move the mouse pointer up to the top of the screen. And in any case, when you fire it up it takes over the whole screen.

There are a few bells and whistles, but not that many. Well, anyway, when I finally got round to actually putting FocusWriter through its paces, I could see it was designed for people just like me, ie those for whom the internet, email and so on and so forth can be as much a source of distraction as one of enlightenment.įocusWriter is a program that is designed to help you focus on writing. Then I had a quick look at my TwitterFeed when something popped up in the corner of my eye. Then I checked the FocusWriter website to see if there was an update, or a UK English dictionary. There’s an old saying I tend to adhere to: you need to use the right tool for the right job.Just before starting this article I thought I ought to check my email. For me as a writer, that means I have lots of different writing tools depending on the kind of writing I’m doing and what stage of the writing process I’m at.

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There are, of course, plenty of “distraction free writing environments” out there.įor instance, I use Scrivener to write my novel and other large projects Hemingway Editor for times of editing Jotterpad to scribble notes and song lyrics on the go (you didn’t know I wrote music too, did you?) and FocusWriterfor short and flash fiction, which is the subject for today’s little review. In fact, even the other apps I mentioned at the start of this post boast distraction free modes which hide most or all of the toolbars to allow you to focus exclusively on your words. What sets apart FocusWriter from these, however, is how highly customisable that environment is and how many features of a typical word processor are still available without being intrusive. Personally, I sometimes find that even the best distraction free interfaces can be a little too sterile when it’s just you and the blinking cursor on a blank screen, daring you to write a word. You can make the interface as pretty or as sterile as you see fit. When you first download the app (for free, I might add, though you can give a “tip”), you will find it is already preloaded with a selection of themes. Some, such as the ‘old school’ theme are very plain featuring nothing but plain text on a plain background. Others include background images and coloured pages for your text to appear on (as you can see from the screenshots below). If none of these themes are to your liking, you can customise them by changing the font margins line-spacing text background colour and opacity and much more besides. You can also create, save and export your own themes using (or not, if you prefer) images from your own library.

There is a traditional toolbar and a selection of menus at the top of the screen which includes all the basic features you would expect from a word processor however, this is all invisible except when you hover the cursor over it, thus giving you easy access to all the basic features without getting in the way while you are trying to write. There is also an option to grey out all text save the sentence, sentences or paragraph you are working on. Personally, I have not found much use for this feature but I suppose I can see why it might help you to focus on a particularly troublesome few sentences, especially if you decide to edit your work with FocusWriter.