Free writemonkey software for windows

Writemonkey 0.9.5 is considered as a very convenient as well as effective program for those who enjoy the simplicity of a typewriter but live in modern times.

Major Features:

1. NO DISTRACTIONS: Full-screen editing. Get free from your computer and its distractions. Writemonkey's full-screen mode hides it all away leaving just you and your text behind. Do more with less!
2. CUSTOMIZABLE LOOK AND FEEL: Choose your own colors, fonts, and page layout. Scale up your text for easy reading, save different settings profiles ...
3. PORTABLE: Put Writemonkey installation on USB key and use it on any computer.
4. STANDARD AND CLEAN TEXT FORMAT: For maximum portability your work is stored in standard text files. Writemonkey will recognize virtually all international characters. Choose different encodings (UTF-8, Unicode, ANSII ...)
5. SMALL, FAST AND STABLE: No installation necessary. Just copy files and directories in any folder on your machine. Writemonkey is very fast and responsive. The main executable is less than 1MB in size.
6. ACCESSIBILITY: Open files from Windows context menu, easily switch between full screen and normal mode, toggle recent files with CTRL+TAB, quick peep behind when in full screen mode (unique feature), quit to system tray ...
7. MARKUP EXPORT: Use text markup rules (*bold*, _italic_ ...) when you write and export formated text to MS Word or default web browser (unique feature).
8. ADVANCED STATISTICS: Check number of written words, characters with or without spaces, pages ... Check your progress. Second partial counter to monitor current session progress with longer texts.
9. PROGRESS BAR (unique feature): Intuitive and pleasantly austere progress bar (numeric or visual) for those who write stuff which needs to be of certain length. Journalists, writers ...
10. TIMED WRITING: Set timer to limit your writing to a certain time. Optionaly put timer marker on progress bar (unique feature).
11. BOOKMARKS: Simple but handy bookmark system. Insert bookmark string anywhere in your text and use ALT+B or ALT+N to jump through them.
12. JUMPS (unique feature): Use an innovative tool for navigating documents. Browse by bookmarks or by all paragraphs using wild card (* and ? characters) enabled filtering. Provide your own jump masks that match your text formatting style.
13. REPOSITORY (unique feature): Document based repository mode. Store your notes, unfinished parts, data clippings or URL's into the same text file. Simply toggle between main text and repository by pressing ALT + R.
14. REPLACEMENTS: Use trigger text as a special character replacement or as a shorthand to insert predefined strings of text such as signatures, addresses, date-time stamps etc.
15. LOOKUPS (unique feature): Quickly open various web resources (dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauruses ...) while writing. Define your own resources and corresponding keyboard shortcuts.
16. TYPING SOUNDS: Travel back to the past with realistic typewriter sounds, use other sound schemes or create your own.
17. BACKUPS AND HISTORY: Never lose your work with advanced backup/history system. The backup files are out of your way (no annoying .bak files in working directory!), but you can browse them easily if necessary. Cure for accidental deletes and save based disasters.
18. AUTO SAVE: Set number of seconds between auto saves.
19. CUSTOMIZABLE PRINTING: You can print with current screen settings or use print specific formatting - font, line spacing, paragraph spacing and text alignment. Printing is "selection aware" i.e. you can print only currently selected text. Print preview is also available.
20. SPELL CHECKER: Spell check whole document or selection with powerful spelling engine and OpenOffice based dictionaries. All major languages are available for download. You can even request additional dictionaries.
21. MULTI MONITOR SUPPORT: You can use extended Windows desktop feature (in Windows display properties) and run Writemonkey in full screen on any monitor connected to your computer.
22. INTEGRATION WITH FIREFOX: Writemonkey is compatible with great Firefox extension It's All Text. Use it when writing text for your blogs, for web based e-mail ... It works with any textarea on any web page. To use this extension set Writemonkey default character encoding to UTF-8 and check out Always save on exit (Preferences / Open&Save tab).
23. MONKEY QUOTES: Be amused by random monkey wisdoms in splash screen. More than 1000 in database and growing .
    
24. LAST BUT NOT LEAST: Writemonkey is completely free, but you can donate by following PAYPAL icon on the home site.

Enhancements:

• Added: Lookups new tool for easy querying customized online resources. Just point to the word and hit ALT+1-9 and the default web browser with the definition will pop up. You can manage your resources in Preferences / Lookups. Select a block of text to lookup multiple words. The feature works best when using two monitors. Put wm on second monitor, web browser on first (both in full screen). When writing, hit lookup shortcut and resource will show on the first monitor while wm will stay full screen on second. You can even write on while waiting for definitions to load ... By default, resource will open in default web browser, but you can use any other application that takes url as an opening parameter. (Preferences / Lookups / Use other than default browser).
• Added: Quick jump feature. Lock scroll position in current doc. and than quickly jump to it. Hit CTR+F4 to lock. Press&hold F4 to jump, release to jump back.
• Improved: More customizable page count option. The new count is based on custom formula (Preferences / Progress / Page cont formula).
• Improved: Better typing sounds engine different key sounds for more authentic experience. New default sound schemes (Old typewriter and Click keyboard).
• Added: Shortcut (ALT+F11) to toggle progress bar type (numeric / visual).
• Added: Markup export now recognizes URLs and e-mail addresses and makes them clickable in exported text.
• Added: Change help card pages with keyboard (Left key, Right key)
• Fixed: Visibility problems with opened dialogs (like Jumps or Find&Replace dialog) when quiting to system tray (soft exit).
• Fixed: Problems on some systems when trying to load saved profiles.
• Fixed: Inconsistent behavior when selecting Cancel in "Do you want to save changes?" dialog.
• Fixed: No typing sound for some keys (?;:_)
• Changed: Shortcut keys (ALT+B, ALT+N) for next and previous bookmarks are reverted. It is more logical this way.
• Added: Some more monkey wisdom for the splash screen.