Twenty 7 and counting

I have just come across a fantastic little program for Windows called Q10. It’s very similar to Writeroom which I use on my Mac. For those who haven’t used Writeroom it’s a distraction free full screen word processor.

Q10 is the best implementation I have found on Windows and it even adds a few extra features. My favourite is the timer. You set an amount of time you want to write for and an alarm goes off at the end of that period. If you follow Merlin Mann you have probably seen some productivity hacks involving timers. There are also other goals you can set such as setting a target to write 1000 words in a session.

Oh and best of all it’s free