You might as well give FocusWriter a whirl. I like having various bits and pieces at my fingertips.īut that’s just me. Move your mouse to the top of the screen and you'll see it: Here you can do all of the standard menu-kinds of things, such as saving, searching opening files or changing your preferences. It is that the very absence of so-called ‘distractions’ is, to me, in itself distracting. Screen-shot of the FocusWriter software using Vintage-Paper Theme, on my Mac. Perhaps the main thing that makes FocusWriter different from other minimalistic text editors is the presence of a hidden toolbar and file menu. It is available as a free version or it can be upgraded to Pro for a one-time. If you find word processors like Word too ‘busy’, you might like to try FocusWriter.įor me, much as I admire the program, I find the same problem with all such applications. MarkdownPad 2 Free (Image by Author) MarkdownPad 2 is a full-featured markdown editor for Windows. Getting to grips with the program is very straightforward, as you can probably see from the screenshots. The ‘delay’ is for when you want to set the alarm for, say, 20 minutes’ time. ![]() The actual time alarm is for when you want to get down to watch your favourite TV programme, or make a phone call, or have dinner, etc. ![]() You can set this either to an actual time or to a ‘delay’. Why couldn’t Word have a feature like this?Īnother feature is the alarm. The next time I start one of these Sessions, it automatically opens the last document I was working on, and even places the cursor at the point I reached when I saved it and quit. By starting a new Session for each of them, and then starting a new document in each Session, I cause a wondrous thing to happen. Let’s suppose I’m working on three bits of writing. This is potentially a handy feature, although, disappointingly, any changes you make to your goal apply to every Session. You can set your goal for the day in the Preferences menu, either as the amount of time you spend or the number of words you produce. Move the pointer to the bottom of the screen and you will see useful stats like your word count and what percentage of your goal you’ve achieved. You don’t even get to see the menus or icons of FocusWriter itself unless you move the mouse pointer up to the top of the screen. And in any case, when you fire it up it takes over the whole screen. There are a few bells and whistles, but not that many. Well, anyway, when I finally got round to actually putting FocusWriter through its paces, I could see it was designed for people just like me, ie those for whom the internet, email and so on and so forth can be as much a source of distraction as one of enlightenment.įocusWriter is a program that is designed to help you focus on writing. Then I had a quick look at my TwitterFeed when something popped up in the corner of my eye. If your keyboard has the Altgr key, this can be used instead of Left Ctrl + Right Alt. The 'Kill script' hotkey will work everywhere and the two others works if the desktop has focus. Then I checked the FocusWriter website to see if there was an update, or a UK English dictionary. Kill script: Left Ctrl + Right Alt + Escape. The macro never changes focus to the new window.Just before starting this article I thought I ought to check my email. The macro runs to completion without errors but nothing on the new window is clicked. The macro doesn’t recognize the new window. After that the macro seems to continue to do its thing but it seems to be doing it “underneath” the new window. The icon is clicked and the new window pops up. ![]() I see the mouse pointer move to the taskbar icon. Keyboard input is directed to the window, and various visual cues are changed for the user. This is what happens: I click the Excel button. The SetForegroundWindow function puts the thread that created the specified window into the foreground and activates the window. The rest of the macro steps are supposed to click on items on the new window. The Macro’s first step is to move from the Excel button and click on a taskbar icon. ![]() It still works great when executed directly from MMM so I don’t think there is anything wrong with the macro. The macro began working incorrectly from the Excel button after I reinstalled Excel. It used to work fine when kicked off from an Excel button.
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