When it comes to ten-finger-typing, I have a green belt at best, as I need to have a look down on the keyboard from time to time to re-orient myself. One of my biggest issues with writing on the touch-keyboard of the iPad is not necessarily that I can’t rest my fingers on the keys. Once you start typing, all settings, the mouse, and the word counter will disappear and all you see is the text on the background. I simply love the instant gratification I get from typing with OmmWriter! However, I would suggest to always keep the typing sounds switched on.
It is possible to switch off the sounds, which may make sense when you are listening to your favourite writing music instead. There are eight background images (two of them slowly dynamically blend colours, similar to how the Spectrum screensaver does), seven background sounds (ranging from zen music to nature sounds to something that I can best describe as “inside the womb” sounds), and seven typing sound effects.
OmmWriter’s strength comes in the range of background images and soundscapes you can choose from. When you are done, you can copy and past your text into an app that lets you format it, or you can save it in OmmWriter as a *.txt, *.pdf, or *.rtf file. OmmWriter does not let you do any formattings (not even through mark-up language), but this is okay, as the whole point is to get into the flow and forget about formatting. However, these are global settings for viewing your text, not for formatting your text. OmmWriter has a limited but useful set of tools that you can use to customize how your text is displayed: You can display your text with one of four different fonts, in four different sizes, and you can resize the area that is used for typing your text. So get yourself some noise cancelling earphones, they are good for a lot of things anyways. They are right! I am writing this review at home right now and started out with using my little MacBook loudspeaker, but it is just not the same as having the soundscape right inside your head.
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On the Mac, OmmWriter starts up in full screen and and advises you to use earphones for an optimal writing experience.
Writing with OmmWriter feels like a day at the spa The iPad app even improves the haptic experience of your writing only smell is left out, but this is what good coffee is for! OmmWriter puts the other senses (and emotions) back in by drawing you into a zen environment complete with soothing background images and immersive soundscapes. They make the point that writing was once an engaging activity that stimulated a lot of different senses (vision, touch, smell, hearing), but that on computers is dominated by vision and the information on the screen. While some people don’t like it, I love OmmWriters approach that is clearly centered around their vision to “recapture what technology has snatched away from us today: our capacity to concentrate.”įor the folks over at OmmWriter, our ability to concentrate is not only disturbed by all the formatting options and cluttered interfaces of full-scale word processors such as Pages and Word. While other apps are proud to offer you a writing environment that is as sterile as possible, OmmWriter at the first glance seems to add even more distraction to your writing experience! Writing on OmmWriter happens in a constant soundscape of background music and typing sound effects.
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OmmWriter (for Mac: $5 in App Store or name-your-own-price on OmmWriter’s homepage, for iPad $5, and also name-your-own-price for windows) is a strange bird in the flock of distraction free writing apps. But when I am stuck, my greatest weapon (next to Kombucha drinks and good coffee) is OmmWriter! Distraction free writing apps are great even when you don’t have writing troubles, because their minimalistic interface will keep you in the flow. I am a great fan of distraction free writing apps and I am using a couple of them (see my post on iA Writer).
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One of the best advice I have seen is to write your way out: write even when you are not quite sure yet how to write it, heck, even write when you have nothing to write about! How can technology help you doing that? There are many reasons why you might be stuck with your writing, and there is even more advice out there how to break the block.
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