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WriteMonkey is an application for full screen distraction and free creative writing. No whistles and bells, just empty screen, you and your words. WriteMonkey is light, fast, and perfectly handy for those who enjoy the simplicity of a typewriter, but live in modern times.

By using this lightweight application, you can quickly create, modify and save notes to your computer, so you do not have to try and make sense of a heavy text editor.

FEATURES:

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

SMALL, FAST, STABLE
No installation necessary. Just copy files and directories in any folder on your machine. Writemonkey is very fast and responsive. The main executable is less than 1,6 MB in size.

PORTABLE
Put Writemonkey installation on USB key and use it on any Windows computer.

COMPLETELY CUSTOMIZABLE
Choose your own ui language (separate download), colors, fonts, page layout and many other aspects of the program. Customize info bar with the info items you want. Scale up your text for easy reading, save different profiles …

EXTENSIBLE VIA POWERFUL JAVASCRIPT PLUGIN ENGINE (ver 2.5)
This is a donors only feature. Currently available plugins: Corkboards, Big Huge Thesaurus. Namely, Clipboard picker, Pomodoro timer, Quick search, Auto indent ... More coming.

STANDARD AND CLEAN TEXT FORMAT
For maximum portability your work is stored in standard text files. Writemonkey is fully UTF-8 compatible and will recognize virtually all international characters. Supports other encoding standards ? Unicode, ANSII …

MARKUP SUPPORT
Writemonkey supports Markdown Extra, Textile and WikiCreole markup standards.
MARKUP HIGHLIGHTING
Highlighting helps you visually discern semantic chunks of texts (headings, block quotes, lists and comments). Writemonkey suports Markdown. Start any paragraph with two slashes "//" and the whole paragraph will be regarded as a comment. It will be dimmed on the screen and excluded from word count and all other statistics.

CSS TEMPLATES FOR MARKUP EXPORT
Use (or create your own) export templates to transform your plain text into well formatted documents. Great for printing first drafts.

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 or lock window on top …

KEYBOARD FRIENDLY
Writemonkey is keyboard friendly software – all commands can be deployed with simple keyboard shortcuts. Even things like scrolling and selecting the text. If you prefer mouse, wm will play along ...

ADVANCED STATISTICS
Inspect your text using built-in statistics module. It will show you all sorts of counts ? words, characters, paragraphs, sentences, pages and more elaborate statistics like word frequencies, lexical density, Gunning Fog index … It will even tell you the aproximate reading time of your text.

COMPLETELY CUSTOMIZABLE INFO BAR
If complete emptiness of the screen distracts you, enable austere Info bar that gives you some basic info – current time, file name in use, progress string, status string and live notices. Dock it to the top or bottom of the screen. Choose one of 5 horizontal positions for each info item. Customize info bar font size and opacity.

VISUAL PROGRESS BAR
Intuitive and pleasantly austere progress bar 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. Optionally put timer marker on progress bar.

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)
An innovative keyboard friendly project management tool. Browse project files, bookmarks or provide your own jump masks that match your text formatting