There is a traditional toolbar and a selection of menus at the top of the screen which includes all the basic features you would expect from a word processor however, this is all invisible except when you hover the cursor over it, thus giving you easy access to all the basic features without getting in the way while you are trying to write. You can also create, save and export your own themes using (or not, if you prefer) images from your own library. If none of these themes are to your liking, you can customise them by changing the font margins line-spacing text background colour and opacity and much more besides. Others include background images and coloured pages for your text to appear on (as you can see from the screenshots below). Some, such as the ‘old school’ theme are very plain featuring nothing but plain text on a plain background.
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When you first download the app (for free, I might add, though you can give a “tip”), you will find it is already preloaded with a selection of themes. You can make the interface as pretty or as sterile as you see fit.
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What sets apart FocusWriter from these, however, is how highly customisable that environment is and how many features of a typical word processor are still available without being intrusive. Personally, I sometimes find that even the best distraction free interfaces can be a little too sterile when it’s just you and the blinking cursor on a blank screen, daring you to write a word. In fact, even the other apps I mentioned at the start of this post boast distraction free modes which hide most or all of the toolbars to allow you to focus exclusively on your words. There are, of course, plenty of “distraction free writing environments” out there. For instance, I use Scrivener to write my novel and other large projects Hemingway Editor for times of editing Jotterpad to scribble notes and song lyrics on the go (you didn’t know I wrote music too, did you?) and FocusWriterfor short and flash fiction, which is the subject for today’s little review. For me as a writer, that means I have lots of different writing tools depending on the kind of writing I’m doing and what stage of the writing process I’m at. There’s an old saying I tend to adhere to: you need to use the right tool for the right job.
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