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Write! - distraction-free writing software
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Posted by Dr Andus
Oct 25, 2014 at 05:36 PM
Just came across this free distraction-free text editor (beta, Windows). Haven’t had a chance to try it yet but looks interesting:
Posted by tightbeam
Oct 25, 2014 at 06:34 PM
Does look nice. But download size: 43+ MB! Wow. They must have packed Stephen King in there.
Posted by tightbeam
Oct 25, 2014 at 06:39 PM
Just fired it up. Right out of the gate, it uses 356 MB (!!) of memory. That’s WAY more than anything else on my Windows 7 system, including Word and InDesign and Thunderbird put together, with room left over. I hope the developer uses the beta period to solve the deal-breaker memory issue. I wonder what an ostensibly simple program has under the hood to use that much memory.
Posted by Dr Andus
Oct 28, 2014 at 04:10 PM
Here is a short review on Write!
http://www.ghacks.net/2014/10/28/write-is-a-distraction-free-rich-text-editor-for-windows/
Posted by Dr Andus
Jan 4, 2015 at 12:09 AM
bobmclain wrote:
>Just fired it up. Right out of the gate, it uses 356 MB (!!) of memory.
Just got around to trying it out. It took 62 MB RAM to run it with a 9000-word text file, in contrast to 108 MB in WriteMonkey and 84 MB in SmartDown, so that doesn’t look too bad.
I really like what they call the “Navigation bar”, which gives you a bird’s eye view of the document in the form of a ribbon on the right and allows you to jump around in the document (a bit similar to WriteMonkey’s “Map Jump” feature). I’ve seen it in more sophisticated text editors (can’t remember if it was Vim, Emacs, or Sublime Text), but I wish more writing software would have them.
But I’m not crazy about its WYSIWYG rendering. I’d prefer if it worked like SmartDown, so you get to see both the markdown and the formatting. Also, it’s lacking fine enough controls to adjust the text area width manually.
It’s still in beta. It didn’t warn me before closing an unsaved file, so one needs to be careful with it.