WriteRoom - An App Review

Whoa, it's dark in here. Hello? Is anybody out there?

I feel like I am typing in the great vacuum of space, or maybe it's just that I have miraculously been whisked away from all exposure to any possible distraction that might keep my mind from realizing what my eyes are seeing: there is absolutely nothing on my screen but what I am currently typing.

That's right, there is no mail icon displaying how many spam messages I need to go delete, no iChat badge telling me that someone is lol and rotfl-ing, in fact there isn't even a dock at all or a menu bar. The ever-present Apple logo has vanished from the upper left corner of my screen! You kind of need to see this to believe it. If I didn't know any better, I would think I downgraded my computer a couple decades to the days of command prompts and that steady blinking text block quietly reminding me to share with him my thoughts.

I do know better, however, because I am the one who launched WriteRoom; a cool little app from HogBay Software. This software aims to keep you focused on the task at hand, and that it does, ladies and gentlemen. That it does.

I can feel the productivity coursing through my veins. There really are no other words I can use to describe the rare feeling of typing in a vacuum. . . you just have to check it out for yourself. Enjoy!

TaskPaper - An App Review

What can I say? TaskPaper does what it claims. When it comes to simple, no-nonsense to-do list management, many apps try to do more than TaskPaper, but few match the bare-bones, spartan-like approach of  HogBay Software in providing a clean solid app to manage the completion of lists.

Now, do I feel that TaskPaper should remain as it is without any work toward feature enhancement/addition? No. I do feel that the app could gain from some minor tweaks like the use of color perhaps in tag placement or in the addition of a "due date" column with smart searches for "due today" "due this week" etc. But this is me thinking of ways to make TaskPaper into the all-powerful task list manager, which would defeat the whole idea behind the app itself.

TaskPaper does what it claims, and does it well.

Check it out, and give the people over there at HogBay Software a shot.