The 7 perfect tools to write without distractions

Having lots of buttons, banners, and even editor suggestions at the time we’re writing can backfire on us and cause us to get distracted by things that aren’t writing.

That is why there are extremely minimalist editors that allow us to concentrate one hundred percent on what we are writing and not have any type of unnecessary distraction.

Let’s see what are the best online writing tools that will prevent our head from going somewhere other than what we are writing.

Index of contents:

ZenPen

This is one of the minimalist editors where it only has information on the home page to set the guidelines for us to follow now that it works. The rest is a blank sheet of paper with no distractions.

We can put bold, italics, add links, quotes or all of these parametersbut minimizing distractions, as you can switch to full screen mode using the button on the right side of the screen.

One thing we’ve found really cool is that ZenPen can set a target word count. We see this in the bar on the right side that, as we write, fills up and we see the number of remaining words, turning green when the goal is reached.

HemingwayEditor

Hemingway Editor is an editor that is normally used as an additional tool, since it is capable of detect poorly structured sentences to improve the readability of the text

In any case, it can serve as a direct editor without problems, since we are talking about a clean interfacewith hardly any distractions and with all the options it has discreetly integrated.

At the time that we start writing all hint of distraction disappearshaving to move to the top of the screen if we want all the features to appear, although it is best to use the keyboard shortcuts so that everything flows much faster.

If we have already finished writing, then it may be a good time to switch to editing mode and there we can give the final touch to the entire structure of the text, being able to take advantage of its sentence detection capabilities.

typWrittr

typWrittr is another one that su interface is practically not intrusive when writing, although in this case it focuses more on a customizable writing experience.

Something very attractive is that we have different types of colors or backgrounds to choose from, being able to vary from the type of buttons or any element, including the writing sound.

typWrittr is not free, it costs 5 dollars a monthalthough during the first three weeks they do not charge anything as a trial.

All the writings are saved in the cloudso if you want any newer or older ones, they will be able to open or download it.

Writer

The best thing about Writer is that absolutely customizable. Background, colors, text, fonts, spacing, and even sound can be varied.

It is a tool that works even if we do not have an Internet connection, synchronizing when the network is available again.

It will be synchronized as soon as it has a signal again, saving all the documents created on its servers automatically.

Another good section is that we can set goalsthat is, the date of delivery of the writing or the number of words that it must contain.

It is compatible with the Markdown format and allows us to export as a text file, HTML, PDF, etc.

The monthly subscription costs 5 dollars, although there is an option to pay 99 dollars and have a lifetime license.

Calmy Writer Online

Calmy Writer Online can be one of which more features they offer us, but always from an aura of minimizing all distractions to the maximum.

the only way to see the options that the tool has is to click on the logo at the top and observe how features such as changing the width of the text, the font or the style, among others, are displayed. To this we must add the intelligent punctuation function, by which we will not have to worry about capital letters while we are writing.

As if that were not enough, he still has three specific modes to suppress distractions such as dark, full screen or focus, a mode where all the text is dimmed except for the paragraph where we are writing.

Google Docs

In addition to being a very complete word processoralthough with a fairly minimalist interface, not as much as other examples, but which we consider a bit messy.

So that we don’t have any distraction only we must put into operation Full Screen Mode in which all the tools are hidden, allowing us to write in a totally free place, that is, a blank page.

If you want to enable this mode in Google Docs you must click on Watch on the toolbar and select Fullscreen.

writebox

Writebox only has one toolbar at the top, which is disappearing as we write, something that is appreciated and that denotes the commitment not to distract the person who writes at all.

In that toolbar we have the possibility to vary the background color, the color of the text, the font, the height and the width of the line. That is, we have plenty of text customization possibilities.

Something extremely positive is that we can connect Google Drive or drop box so synchronize all the writings that we do with the cloud that we choosealthough it also saves them locally on our own computer.

Definitely, all the tools that we have just seen will help us not to have any type of distraction when writing, something that can be quite counterproductive, since, by being very distracted, a text that can take an hour to write can be multiplied by much more.

With editors like the ones we’ve just seen and their minimalist interfaces, this problem is solved, letting the text flow naturally and quickly, without anything on our computer interrupting it.