Google Chrome for writers. 5 simple text editors

Not always The multi-skill and richness of features in demand by all users of a program. It often happens that instead of bulky harvester, able to do everything, man needs a simple and intuitive tool that performs only the work, but do it well. To a large extent this also applies to text editors. If you need a simple editor for typing, you do not bother with unnecessary various buttons, menus, dialog boxes, and also works directly in your browser, then pay attention to one of the programs this review.

Write Space - a simple text editor that is implemented in the form of a special application for Google Chrome. After its launch, you will see only a black background and text that you type, and the bottom - service line with information about the number of words, lines and characters. However, in the extension settings you can change the color scheme and font settings to more familiar to you. The application can store data locally, so you can use it without an internet connection. There is autosave function, which allows you to close the window without losing any data. There is a spell checker and support for the Cyrillic alphabet.

This application for Google Chrome though it has a toolbar that is not fully consistent with the concept of "pure Sheet of Paper ", but instead provides a convenient way to change the settings of the text and the background without the need for picking in options. Here you can save your work locally in the Google Drive or Dropbox, and open any file of these cloud storage. The result is a great simple text editor with cloud data synchronization.

DarkEditor is rather unusual representative of minimalist text editors. It has a menu at the top of the screen, which contains a fairly large number of different options. Besides the usual features for saving and opening files locally and in the cloud, you will find functions work with e-books in ePub, options for encrypting files and even some reason calendar calculator. However, you can safely turn off these excesses and to be alone with a clean sheet of paper.

This notebook is perfect for those writers who define themselves by the daily norm of time or words. To track these parameters Pillarbox has a special pop-up from the bottom panel, which displays the number of typed words, timer and clock. Appearance of the application is configured in the most wide range, up to custom CSS in the application settings. There is autosave every 10 seconds and the ability to work without a network connection.

An app with this simple name is one of the most interesting text editors in this review. In it, you can adjust the display options of background and text, to monitor the collection of statistics, save your work on your computer as a text file or in PDF format, print text and even post messages in the form of a post in one of the most popular blogging platform (WordPress, Tumblr, Blogger, LiveJounal).

These are simple text editors do not require installation, run for a second and work directly in your favorite browser. And most importantly - they do not distract you from the most important thing, for the sake of what, in fact, and you sit down at the computer - from the creative process. Try one of these programs, and perhaps you will like it more than the most feature-rich word processor.

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