![]() You can download it yourself and run it today. This is great news, but at the moment, the best thing about WriteRoom is that it’s a real, working prototype. Jesse was responsible for Hog Bay Notebook and its successor, Mori - both excellent examples of reductive, elegant and distinctly Macintoshian applications (full disclosure: I designed an earlier version of his Web site). Then I got an email from Jesse Grosjean, proprietor of Hog Bay Software. Which is great news, but as a Macintosh user, what I really wanted was a slick, beautiful Cocoa application, something completely native to the Mac. A respondent to that post, apparently, decided to take up the challenge and, according to David, has begun to code a prototype in Python. ![]() Then I got a note from David Goodman, a MetaFilter reader who liked the idea enough to post it to Ask MetaFilter, in the hopes that someone could point him to a similar product for Windows. Of course, it’s presumptuous of me to assume that any idea I throw out there will ignite a flurry of developer activity, but still, you can’t blame me for hoping a similar application would magically appear on Version Tracker one day. ![]() After a fair amount of reader interest, I was disappointed to find that no Cocoa developers actually stepped up to claim the idea and run with it. Here’s an update on Blockwriter, my concept for a text editor that’s as reductive and productive as a typewriter.
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