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Dark Room

Dark Room is a full screen, distraction free, writing environment.

Free
Windows

Dark Room is a full screen, distraction free, writing environment. Unlike standard word processors that focus on features, Dark Room is just about you and your text.

Basically, Dark Room is a clone of the original WriteRoom that is an OS X (tiger) exclusive application. It is a child of necessity, as there were no viable alternatives in Windows to produce the same behavior. Sure, you can kind of emulate the behavior by jumping through a bunch of hoops in Word/Writer, but it isn’t the same. Also, you can do something similar in emacs, but who wants to learn a bunch of obscure keyboard shortcuts?... More Info »

The goal of the project is to capture the essence of WriteRoom, while keeping it simple and just as free.

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Features

Distraction free writing Distraction-free UI Add a feature

Category

Office & Productivity

Tags

distraction-free-writing no-distraction word-processing

Dark Room was added by calebhudson in Dec 2009 and the latest update was made in Aug 2017. The list of alternatives was updated Oct 2018 There is a history of all activites on Dark Room in our Activity Log. It's possible to update the information on Dark Room or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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