I think OmmWriter may stimulate the writing of streamy pieces from scratch. A selected piece of text can be moved through drag and drop, which is nice.
#Ommwriter rtf mac os#
Right-click on the text brings up what appears to be the Mac OS standard context menu for text boxes, including spelling support and speech. This version can apparently save in text format, RTF and PDF. Not sure I agree with this.įinally, a control for bare-bones essentials of file management (save, save as, and open). By the way, it seems like the box borders and controls appear as soon as I start the scrolling gesture.
It would surely be different if I opened a long piece of text that I wasn’t previously familiar with. Particularly not when writing from scratch. There is no visual indication of how long the text is or where I am in the text, but I don’t think I would need it. I think I like not having scroll bars more than I dislike it.
No scroll bars as far as the eye (or the I) can see. When the text becomes longer than the box, I can scroll it up and down with the conventional two-finger gesture. On the OmmWriter web page, there are some thoughts on how a vertical line can feel like an obstacle to the flow of text, whereas the horizontal underscore invites the text to move on. The typing caret is custom-made as a subtle little blinking underscore, presumably to be less distractive than the regular vertical bar. The leading has not been adjusted properly it is just a little too tight, even for a narrow column of 50-60 characters per line which is what I instinctively resized the text box to. The typefaces are nonremarkable: a sans-serif (Helvetica), a serif (Georgia), a script (is it Snell Roundhand? Anyway, it has an animation of a pen stroke that I find almost entirely cutesy-annoying) and a monospace (which I can’t name). The controls fade away after a few seconds of inactivity, or as soon as I start typing again. Only a few controls: to move and resize text box, to do simple formatting such as choosing between four typefaces and four type sizes. And two more sounds to choose from, both high-pitched, spacey and quiet: a little twang and a little snap. Speaking of audio, I notice now that there is a very subtle keypress sound, like the quiet chirp of a cricket. There are bells and chimes to make my writing into something serene, if not even slightly religious. The audio selections are also light and calm. A winter landscape, a clean white slate and a light gray textured canvas.
#Ommwriter rtf free#
The free version OmmWriter Dana I has three images and three sound loops. Ambient music in my headphones while I write. Is it solid and organic, or merely eye (and ear) candy?Ī transparent text box on top of a fullscreen background image. Richard tells me this is interaction aesthetics.
#Ommwriter rtf windows#
Update: it now also works on Windows operating system! Here’s a review by interaction designer Jonas Löwgren and a short discussion between him and Richard Topgaard. Ambient background music and chirpy keyboard clicks are optional. Do you ever dream of being able to write without being disturbed by incoming e-mails and facebook notifications? OmmWriter gives you a clutter-free word-processing interface with no menus, no spell check and no notifications of any kind.
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