Are your digital companions more of a bother than a help? A computer screen will often be cluttered with numerous windows, notifications, tabs and colours. But sometimes, you just need some time (and virtual space) to think and type out your thoughts.
If this problem seems familiar, you need a text editor that removes all these distractions. Try JDarkRoom, a free, no-frills text editor that you can download from www.codealchemists.com. JDarkRoom runs full screen, with a minimalistic, oldschool interface, automatically blocking out all the other on-screen irritants. It is available for Windows, MAC and Linux and is an unbelievably small download (about 0.3MB).
It may not be as full-featured as Microsoft Word, but it also has a lot more features than the very basic notepad or memo applications. For example; you can change the background colour, it autosaves any text that you are working on, a goal feature displays the number of words needed to reach a word target and it also has a no-delete mode. Besides, if you've ever used computers in the command-line , pre graphical user interface era, the green text on black background will definitely inspire some nostalgia.