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WriteRoom [via]: free, no-frills full-screen text editor for OS X. I just love writing this way; there were already a bunch of professional writing tools with such functionality, but nothing on the free side.

I’m not a fan of auto-save (“Your text is auto-saved whenever you stop typing for a few seconds”), and the fact that WriteRoom saves text in its own data store (Command-S exports to a new text file) is both the second coolest feature and a hindrance: it doesn’t matter for writing blog posts, but if I were going to write a novel (yeah, as if) I would be mindful to trust my text to hidden files (yeah, I could Command-S regularly to new backup files, but it just doesn’t feel the same — what it needs, really, is a keyboard shortcut to immediately save to a new timestamped file on the desktop, without asking for a filename).

Still, the icon is now a resident on my dock. I’m just not quite sure what I’ll be using it for, yet.

(Oh, by the way, the initial colors are a bit surprising — well, not so much when you know the history of computers — but they’re customizable.)