FocusWriter Portable

Even though the pen and paper writing method is slowly becoming extinct, it does not mean writing in general becomes obsolete. With the help of various specialized computer applications such as FocusWriter Portable you are able to express ideas or simply work in a distraction free environment in order to better concentrate on the task at hand.

Running the application covers your entire screen with a highly detailed wallpaper, as well as a virtual sheet of paper in which you can easily input text. Accessing the options menu gives you the possibility to change the theme, in order to make it suit your style or mood.

Unfortunately, you can only choose from a disappointingly small list, but the application lets you fully customize the environment with font options, as well as a custom background image, in case available presets don’t appeal to you.

The application provides a decent amount of motivation to writers. It lets you set a custom amount of words as a daily target to keep your fingers constantly pressing buttons in order to get that piece of fiction ready as soon as possible.

An integrated option gives you the possibility to set a memo to remind you of upcoming events, in case you get caught too deep in the application’s magic. However, you are only able to set an visual alert, with no option to be acoustically warned, neither with preset sound effects, nor audio files from your hard disk drive.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that FocusWriter Portable manages to properly live up to expectations. The interface gets you quickly up and running and you can also save work under common office text file formats. It tends to get a little rough around the edges when an incredible amount of pages are created, but getting there means it’s worth more than a try.