Dark Room - distraction free writing

[Andrew Lee]

Application name: Dark Room

Website: http://they.misled.us/dark-room/

Date tested: 2006-09-04

Status: Not portable

Reason: Requires .NET runtime.

[webfork]

Old thread update:

Dark Room is a full screen, distraction free, writing environment. Unlike standard word processors that focus on features, Dark Room is just about you and your text.

Basically, Dark Room is a clone of the original WriteRoom that is an OS X (tiger) exclusive application. It is a child of necessity, as there were no viable alternatives in Windows to produce the same behavior. Sure, you can kind of emulate the behavior by jumping through a bunch of hoops in Word/Writer, but it isn’t the same. Also, you can do something similar in emacs, but who wants to learn a bunch of obscure keyboard shortcuts?

Former dotNet restriction has been lifted and author lists a note about portability:

ADDED: Settings cached locally for increaed portability

[I am Baas]

Tested: Not Portable

Settings: user.config in AppData\Local\DarkRoom

Also writes .net related stuff to security.config.cch and to enterprisesec.config.cch files in AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\CLR Security Config\v2.0.50727.312\64bit and in Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727\config

@moderator
Please move to "Freeware That Are Not Portable"

[Dwel]

omg, I absolutely love this. Dark room! where have you been all my life!

[tproli]

You should try Q10 too, similar software but requires no .net.

[Midas]

You should try Q10 too, similar software but requires no .net.

+1

[smaragdus]

Dark Room has a new home:
http://jjafuller.com/dark-room

[webfork]

[Moderator note: posts about WriteMonkey were given their own thread.]