Blockwriter - such a gorgeous tool!

I have many, many flaws and weird hang-ups: one of them is IMPLEMENTS FOR WRITING TEXT. I can't resist fountain pens, typewriters, word processors... it's just embarrassing. I have dozens. Oodles. Anyway, there seems to be a bit of an upswing for applications that focus on writing as opposed to editing. That means clutter-free screen, limited search and layouting fiddly bits.
Blockwriter is a very neat little app, it made me smile and looks useful. (Clarification: Blockwriter is only a concept - probably in need of a skilled Cocoa programmer!)
Writeroom gives you monochrome full-screen editing in almost every application - very clever.
And for those moments when only a full word processor will do: Mellel is the way to go.

Now, just think what I could accomplish if I put as much effort into writing as I do into collecting tools...

Comments

[Gustav]

Hum-de-dum. I like writing tools, but have too much ferret-character to collect them. I still stick with Tex-Edit...If I remember correctly, I have about six or seven different apps installed, but every time I need to write something, it's always Tex-edit. Don't really know why. I guess I don't care. As long as I can make a document containing text without much hassle, I'm content.

[Jan Tångring]

Tex-Edit rules! It has great Apple script support. I have maybe half a dozen scripts I use daily, and maybe 50 scripts developed in total.

They do stuff like converting åäå to html codes, reformatting for different purposes like removing extra line endings from email, formatting for proofreading or easy reading, extracting email or ip adresses from chunks of texts, adding a time stamp to the text i am writing (using COMMAND+§) to be able so synch with recorded interviews, sucking out and reformatting the text content from Quark Express documents.

Most of this used professionally at work. But also toy stuff like typing text that gradually fades away with time, or plotting functions.