In “Darkroom - A procrastinator’s dream editor” I discuss Darkroom, an editor helping easily distracted people like myself focus for more than a few minutes at a time.

A problem with Darkroom are the bugs when trying to copy and paste, an annoying message pops up informing me that an error has occurred.

Another editor of a similar ilk has come to light, JDarkroom is much the same, a full screen green text editor with very few features. So far, it has none of the problems Darkroom has, well worth a look.

Sometimes, when writing proposals or posts for my blog, I find it difficult to focus and end up doing those jobs which on any other day I would have avoided like the plague. Such as mowing the lawn or catching up on my Quincy repeats.

Thanks to freelanceswitch, I have started using an editor which is an absolute god send. To the point where this is in fact my third document of the day. The editor is called DARKROOM.

What’s so good about it?

Simply, it pushes all desktop distractions into the background. When you run the program for the first time, it sizes to full screen. So all you see is a black screen with a blinking cursor. No toolbars, no system tray distractions, just a black screen and a blinking cursor. When you start typing the default text colour is green, essentially what you have is an editor with the look of a green screen terminal. Having this allows you to focus your thought process towards the document without the odd glance over to my system tray new email alerter or MSN icon.

Now when I say this is a simple editor, I mean it. Not only in looks, but features. You can only create new lines, copy, paste, save and save to text files. So you kind of are getting the picture, but when all you want to do is to get that idea down then this is ideal.