ZenPen VS FocusWriter

ZenPen Reviews

FocusWriter Reviews

ZenPen mentions (3)

• What are your writer's habits?

  I’m 🙈 like everyone else about writing directly into the AO3 editor (don’t know about Wattpad, does that autosave?) – even a browser-based alternative that autosaves like online notepad app, ompad, zenpen or an etherpad would be safer for writing (not for storing drafts ofc). Maybe if you look for something very clean with cloud storage + autosave you could try Dropbox Paper. Or Focuswriter might be a great and... Source: almost 2 years ago

• New rich text editors use native contenteditable

  DraftJS, Slate, ProseMirror, Quill and more - they all use their model for abstracting dom (unfortunately I don't rememeber what was the exact reasoning. Quill has some article on that https://quilljs.com/docs/delta) I can see now the surge of new RTEs that simply use contenteditable and dom. Is it that isssue from the past that led those libs above to use abstractions - are not valid... Source: over 2 years ago

• New rich text editors use native contenteditable without abstractions over DOM

  Https://atata.io/examples/custom-rich-text-editor-based-on-contenteditable/; http://suneditor.com/sample/index.html; https://alex-d.github.io/Trumbowyg; https://zenpen.io;. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

FocusWriter mentions (25)

• Ensō: write now, edit later

  Reminds me of the (dead) RoughDraft mac app by 43 Folders(?). There is also FocusWriter - opensource and multi-platform. https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• A collection of useful Mac Apps

  FocusWriter - Price: Free Distraction-free writing app for Mac that allows you to focus on your writing. Source: 9 months ago

• What do you people write on?

  You can get it here: https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/. Source: 10 months ago

• Is there an app to keep track of all the details when writing a story?

  Also, if you're kinda of an indie author, try Bibisco or Focuswriter. Source: 11 months ago

• is there a computer that can only run word a processor

  If you have a spare laptop, I recommend just disabling the Internet altogether. But before then, install a program called FocusWriter - it goes full screen. Or instead of the spare computer idea, maybe create a new user account on your computer maybe called Writing, install FocusWriter and have it launch on startup, and disable that account's Internet. Source: 11 months ago