Dark Room (DR) : Free Full Screen Writing Environment

Dark Room is a full screen, distraction free, writing environment. Unlike standard word processors that focus on features, Dark Room is just about you and your text.

Basically, Dark Room is a clone of the original WriteRoom that is an OS X (tiger) exclusive application. It is a child of necessity, as there were no viable alternatives in Windows to produce the same behavior.

Sure, you can kind of emulate the behavior by jumping through a bunch of hoops in Word/Writer, but it isn’t the same. Also, you can do something similar in emacs, but who wants to learn a bunch of obscure keyboard shortcuts?

The goal of the project is to capture the essence of WriteRoom, while keeping it simple and just as free.

[ Keyboard Shortcuts ]

• File Menu
  • Clear Document: Ctrl+N
  • Open Document: Ctrl+O
  • Save Document: Ctrl+S
  • Quit: Ctrl+Q
• Edit Menu
  • Undo: Ctrl+Z
  • Redo: Ctrl+Y
  • Cut: Ctrl+X
  • Copy: Ctrl+C
  • Paste: Ctrl+V
  • Select All: Ctrl+A
  • Find: Ctrl+F
  • Find Next: F3
  • Preferences: Ctrl+,
• View Menu
  • Statistics: Ctrl+/
  • Toggle Fullscreen: F11 or Esc

[ System Requirements ]

.NET Framework 2.0 (or higher versions)

[ Official Download ]