WriteMonkey

NO DISTRACTIONS:
- Full-screen editing. Get free from your computer and its distractions. 's full-screen mode hides it all away leaving just you and your text behind. Do more with less!

CUSTOMIZABLE LOOK AND FEEL:
- Choose your own colors, fonts, and page layout. Scale up your text for easy reading, save your favorite color schemes ...

STANDARD AND CLEAN TEXT FORMAT:
- For maximum portability your work is stored in standard text files. will recognize virtually all international characters. Choose different encodings (UTF-8, Unicode, ANSII ...)

SMALL, FAST AND STABLE:
- No installation necessary. Just copy files and directories in any folder on your machine. is very fast and responsive. The main executable is less than 1MB in size.

ACCESSIBILITY:
- Open files from Windows context menu, easily switch between full screen and normal mode, toggle recent files with CTRL+TAB, quick peep behind when in full screen mode (unique feature), quit to system tray ...

MARKUP EXPORT:
- Use text markup rules (*bold*, _italic_ ...) when you write and export formated text to MS Word or default web browser (unique feature).

ADVANCED STATISTICS:
- Check number of written words, characters with or without spaces, pages ... Check your progress.

PROGRESS BAR (unique feature):
- Intuitive and pleasantly austere progress bar (numeric or visual) for those who write stuff which needs to be of certain length. Journalists, writers ...

TIMED WRITING:
- Set timer to limit your writing to a certain time. Optionaly put timer marker on progress bar (unique feature).

BOOKMARKS:
- Simple but handy bookmark system. Insert bookmark string anywhere in your text and use ALT+B or ALT+N to jump through them.

JUMPS (unique feature):
- Use an innovative tool for navigating documents. Browse by bookmarks or by all paragraphs using wild card (* and ? characters) enabled filtering. Provide your own jump masks that match your text formatting style.

REPOSITORY (unique feature):
- Document based repository mode. Store your notes, unfinished parts, data clippings or URL's into the same text file. Simply toggle between main text and repository by pressing ALT + R.

REPLACEMENTS:
- Use trigger text as a special character replacement or as a shorthand to insert predefined strings of text such as signatures, addresses, date-time stamps etc.

TYPING SOUNDS:
- Travel back to the past with realistic typewriter sounds, use other sound schemes or create your own.

BACKUPS AND HISTORY:
- Never lose your work with advanced backup/history system. The backup files are out of your way (no annoying .bak files in working directory!), but you can browse them easily if necessary. Cure for accidental deletes and save based disasters.

AUTO SAVE:
- Set number of seconds between auto saves.

CUSTOMIZABLE PRINTING:
- You can print with current screen settings or use print specific formatting - font, line spacing, paragraph spacing and text alignment. Printing is "selection aware" i.e. you can print only currently selected text. Print preview is also available.

SPELL CHECKER:
- Spell check whole document or selection with powerful spelling engine and OpenOffice based dictionaries. All major languages are available for download. You can even request additional dictionaries.

MULTI MONITOR SUPPORT:
- You can use extended Windows desktop feature (in Windows display properties) and run in full screen on any monitor connected to your computer.

INTEGRATION WITH FIREFOX:
- is compatible with great Firefox extension It's All Text. Use it when writing text for your blogs, for web based e-mail ... It works with any textarea on any web page. To use this extension set default character encoding to UTF-8 and check out Always save on exit (Preferences / Open&Save tab).

MONKEY QUOTES:
- Be amused by random monkey wisdoms in splash screen. More than 1000 in database and growing ...