So here I am typing away on Focused. Focused is a compact adobe air app that blanks your screen and provides you an area to type on. Enabling you to stay ‘focussed’ on what you are writing, with no distractions. It has basic settings which allow you to choose the area on which to type and the font used.
The idea is similar to other desktop apps that are available. The same can be obtained in most word processor apps by clicking on the full screen option, and you’d still retain all the bells and whistles associated with your particular flavour of bloatware.
Are there advantages to focused?
- Well it is a tiny app.
- It is quick and easy to launch
- It does what it sets out to do
- It will help you learn to spell correctly
the disadvantages?
- The opposite of the above
I’m going to keep it installed and see how it goes for the next few weeks. The big question for me is whether or not I’ll actually bother to open the app. Having said that, white, or just off white, text on a black screen is very, very cool.
You can try it out here
I’m not sure why you would call the app tiny. Although the app itself may be small you have to install the 13mb (English linux distribution) Adobe air runtime and then install the app itself. It doesn’t sound very innovative either. Considering the runtime and air apps are basically Apple’s entire business model for iPhone apps. Plus you are really only talking about a stripped down full screen word processor. I won’t even go into the adobe bloatware debate but Acrobat is a shining example of their history in that field. Hey, at least they are offering a linux distribution. Considering their history of failure in that department with flash it’s quite refreshing to see.
Good points and thanks for the reply.
My intention was that the focused app was tiny. I am already using the adobe air runtime so I didn’t have to install that – already using twhirl. I should have mentioned the need to download the bigger runtime, so thanks for pointing that out.