Brand Identity Designer Mark McCorkell

Ommwriter for writing inspiration

Have you ever wanted to just write something and not have to worry about being distracted by new email notifications? Or have you ever just got frustrated typing out that article in the restrictive little “compose” window? Until I discovered Ommwriter, writing articles was not always a pleasant task, and often I found myself battling to control interfaces, and generally getting distracted from the sole objective of my task, which was writing a good article.

Extract from Ommwriter website:

A wise man once said “We are all at the mercy of our wild monkey minds. Incessantly swinging from branch to branch.” With multiple windows and applications all vying for our attention, we have sadly adapted our working habits to that of the computer and not the other way around. Ommwriter is a humble attempt to recapture what technology has snatched away from us today: our capacity to concentrate.

Ommwriter is a simple text processor that firmly believes in making writing a pleasure once again, vindicating the close relationship between writer and paper. The more intimate the relation, the smoother the flow of inspiration.

Ironically, I have actually written this article in Ommwriter too (view screenshot). It’s just so beautiful and peaceful. The idea behind Ommwriter is not to replace Word, or your default document publishing application, but to act as a tool to help get the creative juices flowing, and focus on what is most important – the words you are writing. Once I finish writing my articles I save them as an Ommwriter file, then as a simple .txt file, and either paste it into Word or straight into WordPress. Your Mac (still only available for mac) will already have a default spell checker built into your OS, so you can spell check as you write your article.

“If you are a scriptwriter, blogger, journalist, copywriter, poet or just someone who enjoys writing, welcome back to concentrating.”

Ommwriter recommends that you put on headphones when writing so that you are truly isolated and fully immersed in the experience. As you type there are peaceful, ambient background sounds, and you can customise how much you hear. There are also options to have little soft noises as you tap your keys. That word “awesome” is truly overused on the inter-webs, but in this instance I think it is worthy of usage when describing such a superb application.

If you are using a Mac, and you do any form of writing at all, then you should download Ommwriter. Did I mention this is totally free?

What are your thoughts? Would you consider using it?

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