ki4jgt
August 20th, 2011, 07:41 PM
NOTE: This is not the most grammatically correct. I used to be a grammar Nazi back in the day when I was actually going into the writing field. Now I could care less. I'm just writing this for those people who had trouble running upon programs dedicated specifically to writing.
MODS: Didn't know where to put this so I decided Community Cafe. . . If there's a better place, Mods please feel free to move with no complaints from me.
I've heard a lot a complaints that Linux doesn't have any quality tools for writers/authors. I mean sure, there's Libre Office, Abiword, and numerous other text editors, but nothing really focused to the talent of writing.
Here's what you should know about Focuswriter. For starters, it's NOT a writer's suite. It doesn't come with all the built in gadgets and gizmos. It's more simplistic by design. It tries to take the user back from the days of fancy letterheads and cover letters to a time of a single sized font. The time when boom boom boom was more of a tick tick tick. That's right, Focus writer is more for those of us who prefer the Typewriter over today's modern style crazed multi purpose office suites, which even though serve their purpose, often tend to get the user so caught up in the pretty graphics, that they often forget what they're doing altogether.
Focuswriter is a cross-platform text editor which composes your document in either raw text format or rich text format, and appears to be written on top of gedit (I could be wrong). It's main goal is to allow you to take your mind off of your computer screen, and place it on writing itself. That being said, it does quite a GREAT job. Focuswriter allows you to fully customize your writing environment. You may add a photo background to the editor to draw inspiration from while you're typing. It's like those emails people send you with pictures in the background (except you're the only one who's going to see it.) You may also customize the font and writing area's background to reflect your own personal color preferences.
Other than the great features listed above, it also has these built in:
Enabling typewriter sounds
Importing and Exporting Themes (workspaces)
Changing your format between txt and rtf
Built in timer
Icons disappear (automatically) for full screen editing
All counts are included (Word, Paragraph, Character)
You can set daily goals on how many (words, minutes) on your project
Here are some screenshots of my own personal theme.
MODS: Didn't know where to put this so I decided Community Cafe. . . If there's a better place, Mods please feel free to move with no complaints from me.
I've heard a lot a complaints that Linux doesn't have any quality tools for writers/authors. I mean sure, there's Libre Office, Abiword, and numerous other text editors, but nothing really focused to the talent of writing.
Here's what you should know about Focuswriter. For starters, it's NOT a writer's suite. It doesn't come with all the built in gadgets and gizmos. It's more simplistic by design. It tries to take the user back from the days of fancy letterheads and cover letters to a time of a single sized font. The time when boom boom boom was more of a tick tick tick. That's right, Focus writer is more for those of us who prefer the Typewriter over today's modern style crazed multi purpose office suites, which even though serve their purpose, often tend to get the user so caught up in the pretty graphics, that they often forget what they're doing altogether.
Focuswriter is a cross-platform text editor which composes your document in either raw text format or rich text format, and appears to be written on top of gedit (I could be wrong). It's main goal is to allow you to take your mind off of your computer screen, and place it on writing itself. That being said, it does quite a GREAT job. Focuswriter allows you to fully customize your writing environment. You may add a photo background to the editor to draw inspiration from while you're typing. It's like those emails people send you with pictures in the background (except you're the only one who's going to see it.) You may also customize the font and writing area's background to reflect your own personal color preferences.
Other than the great features listed above, it also has these built in:
Enabling typewriter sounds
Importing and Exporting Themes (workspaces)
Changing your format between txt and rtf
Built in timer
Icons disappear (automatically) for full screen editing
All counts are included (Word, Paragraph, Character)
You can set daily goals on how many (words, minutes) on your project
Here are some screenshots of my own personal theme.