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title: Simple Fullscreen Text Editors for Students, Bloggers, Journalists and Writers
date: 2008-04-02T03:27:33+00:00
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# Simple Fullscreen Text Editors for Students, Bloggers, Journalists and Writers

[![Screenshot of a fullscreen text editor Q10](/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/simple-plain-fullscreen-text-editor-for-writers-bloggers-journalists-150x101.png "Simple fullscreen text editor (Q10) screenshot")](https://kaspars.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/simple-plain-fullscreen-text-editor-for-writers-bloggers-journalists.png) Do you ever catch yourself changing the typeface, line spacing or the color of the text **instead of actually writing**? You might want to try one of these: [**Q10**](http://www.baara.com/q10/ "Get the Q10 text editor. Author Joaquín Bernal") — *Finish that first draft. Now.* (Windows only, no frameworks required); [**JDarkRoom**](http://www.codealchemists.com/jdarkroom/ "Get JDarkRoom text editor") — *A simple full-screen text editor.* (requires [Java](http://java.com/getjava "Get the Java Runtime Environment") 1.4 or greater); [**Dark Room**](http://they.misled.us/dark-room "Dark Room text editor") — *Dark Room is a full screen, distraction free, writing environment.* (requires [.NET Framework 2.0](http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0856EACB-4362-4B0D-8EDD-AAB15C5E04F5&displaylang=en "Get the .NET Framework 2.0")).