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Writer.app

Writer.app

typewriter-like word processor

Version:  1.4.3

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Quick response

Feedback Type:  Developer Note

Contributed by: Friday, November 03 2006 @ 08:32 AM PST

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Unspecified

A quick response to a couple of the comments.

Regarding point 1 - and this is a secret, just for you VersionTracker folks, so don't let it out into the wild, but if you mouse up to the top of the screen to make the menu appear, and click and hold down on the menu, and keep dragging and holding as you mouse over the Help menu and then out over to the right, past it, you'll find a hidden preference panel, on which is an option to turn on a really annoying typewriter sound every time you type. :)

The reason the preferences are hidden is because this app is supposed to help those people who have real trouble focusing, and apps with too many toggles and widgets would just drive them to further distraction.

And to the guy with the Writer.app name comment, fair enough. I'd done a quick search on the name to see if anyone else was using it, but Open Office didn't come up.

As this is a drafting tool, primarily (I wouldn't expect any serious writer to use this as their final, let's-ship-it-to-the-editor editor), I don't know how much of an issue this is. I guess we'll see.

The Help menu item gives the basic overview of how the tool is expected to be used - it's based on an idea that only allowing people to go forward may help them meet deadlines. Or something like that. Personally, I've found I make a lot more typos than I ever would have thought, and the strikethroughs on my screen don't let me fudge those facts at all... possibly coming in further releases would be the ability to export a little more seamlessly to Tinderbox or Mellel or Word or Ulysses, or one of the other writer's tool, where you're more likely to do your "final draft" than the initial pass at a story or novel or what have you.

Feedback and comments welcome, though, for post-November releases.
  

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