About

FocusWriter is a simple, distraction-free writing environment. It utilizes a hide-away interface that you access by moving your mouse to the edges of the screen, allowing the program to have a familiar look and feel to it while still getting out of the way so that you can immerse yourself in your work. It’s available for Linux and Windows, and has been translated into many different languages.

Features:

  • TXT, basic RTF, and basic ODT file support
  • Timers and alarms
  • Daily goals
  • Fully customizable themes
  • Typewriter sound effects (optional)
  • Live statistics (optional)
  • Spell-checking (optional)
  • Multi-document support
  • Sessions
  • Portable mode (optional)
  • Translated into over 20 languages

Screenshots

About text with default theme

About text with space theme

About text with blue theme

About text with retro theme

About text with a new theme

Theme management

Ceating a theme

Adding a timer

Timer finished and expanded

Daily progress dialog

Session management

Symbols dialog

General preferences

Release Notes

  • Changes in version 1.8.6
    • Released on January 16, 2024
    • FIXED: Always incremented number for imported themes
    • FIXED: Unable to update contents of theme background image
    • FIXED: Modifying themes sometimes removed backgrounds
    • FIXED: Decompression failed in Haiku
    • Added shortcuts for selecting by paragraph
    • Replaced deprecated code
    • Updated Unicode symbols database
    • Updated Windows dictionaries
    • Translation updates: Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Swedish
  • Changes in version 1.8.5
    • Released on June 27, 2023
    • FIXED: Unable to paste HTML into web browser
    • Translation updates: Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian
  • Changes in version 1.8.4
    • Released on January 10, 2023
    • FIXED: Did not ignore user input when force processing events
    • FIXED: Did not compile on macOS
    • FIXED: Did not compile on OS/2
    • Disabled typewriter sounds on OS/2
    • Replaced deprecated code
  • Changes in version 1.8.3
    • Released on September 26, 2022
    • FIXED: Did not play sound effect when pressing enter
    • FIXED: Played sound effect when opening files
    • FIXED: Missing version number
    • Translation updates: Dutch
  • Changes in version 1.8.2
    • Released on September 1, 2022
    • FIXED: Could not change language in portable mode
    • FIXED: Crashed during paste from context menu
    • FIXED: First line indent was lost on empty paragraphs
    • Always write RTF as Latin1
    • Replaced ICU with iconv
    • Improved Linux deployment
    • Translation updates: German, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Swedish
  • Changes in version 1.8.1
    • Released on July 2, 2022
    • Always write plain text as UTF-8
    • Always write RTF as codepage 1252
    • Replaced QTextCodec with ICU
    • Translation updates: Estonian, German
  • Changes in version 1.8.0
    • Released on June 19, 2022
    • FIXED: Lines were randomly duplicated in ODT
    • FIXED: Did not read text from lists in ODT
    • FIXED: Formatting was lost when restoring untitled documents from cache
    • FIXED: Loading headings caused document to shift vertically
    • FIXED: Timers did not show countdown in tooltip
    • FIXED: Sometimes could not remove dictionaries
    • Only restore changed files from cache
    • Refactored code
    • Removed XPM icon
    • Switched to Qt 6
    • Updated Unicode symbols database
    • Updated Windows dictionaries
    • Translation updates: Armenian, Bosnian, Czech, Dutch, French, Georgian, Italian, Lithuanian, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Bokmål (Norway), Portuguese, Romanian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian
  • Changes in version 1.7.6
    • Released on April 20, 2020
    • FIXED: Did not load locales with underscores
    • FIXED: Compile failure due to missing header
    • Translation updates: Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish
  • Changes in version 1.7.5
    • Released on February 24, 2020
    • Updated Windows dictionaries
    • Updated Windows deployment
    • Translation updates: Ukrainian
  • Changes in version 1.7.4
    • Released on January 16, 2020
    • FIXED: Broken emergency cache in Windows
    • FIXED: Daily progress did not show star background with some themes
    • Replaced deprecated code
    • Translation updates: Catalan, Swedish
  • Changes in version 1.7.3
    • Released on August 7, 2019
    • FIXED: Was not loading KDE icon theme
    • FIXED: Headings menu was incorrectly shown in German
    • Replaced deprecated code
    • Translation updates: Friulian, German, Korean
  • Changes in version 1.7.2
    • Released on March 7, 2019
    • FIXED: Minimum sizes for page counts were too high
    • FIXED: Window icon didn't work in Wayland
    • Require Qt 5.9
    • Improved loading locales
    • Translation updates: Friulian, Korean
  • Changes in version 1.7.1
    • Released on December 17, 2018
    • FIXED: Did not launch when incorrect lock file was found
  • Changes in version 1.7.0
    • Released on December 11, 2018
    • FIXED: Daily progress percentages were not locale aware
    • FIXED: Scene list text was incorrect with Qt 5.12
    • Show current streak for previous day
    • Improved detection of running instance
    • Updated included hunspell
    • Updated dictionaries
    • Translation updates: Czech, Dutch, Hungarian
  • Changes in version 1.6.16
    • Released on September 3, 2018
    • FIXED: Could not always save to remote drives
    • FIXED: Could not browse shortcuts in Windows file dialogs
  • Changes in version 1.6.15
    • Released on July 20, 2018
    • FIXED: Automatic high DPI support
    • Translation updates: Galician, Spanish
  • Changes in version 1.6.14
    • Released on July 6, 2018
    • FIXED: Regression where emergency cache didn't run
    • Renamed NEWS to ChangeLog
    • Translation updates: Bosnian
  • Changes in version 1.6.13
    • Released on May 29, 2018
    • Updated dictionaries
    • Updated Unicode symbols database
    • Replaced deprecated code
    • Extra warnings only shown in debug build
    • Improved Linux deployment
    • Improved macOS deployment
    • Improved Windows deployment
    • Translation updates: Dutch, French, Portuguese
  • Changes in version 1.6.12
    • Released on April 12, 2018
    • Ignore empty cache files
    • Remove auto save
    • Translation updates: Slovenian
  • Changes in version 1.6.11
    • Released on March 30, 2018
    • FIXED: File monitoring prevented saving in Windows
    • Translation updates: Danish, Slovenian
  • Changes in version 1.6.10
    • Released on February 21, 2018
    • Default to Flat ODT for cache files
    • Reduce time between cache writes to 5 minutes
    • FIXED: Fade effect broke alerts
    • FIXED: Fade effect hid text on load screen
    • Translation updates: Greek
  • Changes in version 1.6.9
    • Released on February 7, 2018
    • Updated dictionaries
    • FIXED: Could not save to network devices
    • Translation updates: Igbo, Slovenian
  • Changes in version 1.6.8
    • Released on December 26, 2017
    • FIXED: Could not compile with Qt 5.10
    • FIXED: Did not handle ODT line position with two values
    • Translation updates: German, Indonesian
  • Changes in version 1.6.7
    • Released on August 25, 2017
    • Updated dictionaries
    • FIXED: HiDPI blurred text backgrounds were scaled
    • FIXED: Window margin was always the size of the scrollbar
    • FIXED: Always indented first line when printing
  • Changes in version 1.6.6
    • Released on July 30, 2017
    • FIXED: Did not always install translations in Linux
    • FIXED: Unneccessary compiler warning about switch fallthrough
    • FIXED: Did not show headings when automatic spellchecking was disabled
    • FIXED: Foreground incorrectly placed when load stretched themes
    • Translation updates: Czech, Armenian
  • Changes in version 1.6.5
    • Released on May 30, 2017
    • Updated included hunspell
    • Updated dictionaries
    • FIXED: Data loss when program crashed
    • Translation updates: Greek, Swedish
  • Changes in version 1.6.4
    • Released on March 9, 2017
    • Updated AppData installation directory
    • FIXED: HiDPI blurred text backgrounds were offset and scaled
    • FIXED: HiDPI backgrounds were not centered properly
    • FIXED: HiDPI centered backgrounds were also scaled
    • Translation updates: Chinese (Taiwan), Finnish, German, Indonesian
  • Changes in version 1.6.3
    • Released on December 11, 2016
    • Updated included hunspell
    • FIXED: Line spacing was ignored when pasting in new documents
    • FIXED: Pasting text always made document rich text
    • FIXED: Possible delay on start when creating non-native printer
    • Translation updates: Chinese (China), Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian
  • Changes in version 1.6.2
    • Released on October 13, 2016
    • Generate binary translations at build time
    • FIXED: Focused text did not handle first-line indent
    • FIXED: Was not properly loading Qt translations
    • Translation updates: Armenian, Dutch, Italian, Lithuanian, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Swedish, Ukrainian
  • Changes in version 1.6.1
    • Released on September 19, 2016
    • FIXED: Incorrectly handled non-heading text in OOXML
    • FIXED: Misspelled words did not follow heading style
    • FIXED: Did not always close OOXML paragraph properties correctly
    • FIXED: Did not correctly store RTL in OOXML
    • FIXED: Reported conflicts for empty shortcuts
    • FIXED: Switched to incorrect tab to show conflicting shortcuts
    • Translation updates: German, Romanian
  • Changes in version 1.6.0
    • Released on August 27, 2016
    • Added always showing interface
    • Added headings
    • Added new default themes
    • Added removing user-installed dictionaries
    • Added shortcut for typographical apostrophe
    • Added support for ODT Flat XML files
    • Added support for high DPI displays
    • Switched to QSoundEffect
    • Updated dictionaries
    • FIXED: Daily progress did not reset when run longer than a day
    • FIXED: Printer margins were too big
    • FIXED: Was replacing session files with command-line files
    • FIXED: Did not add new default symbol shortcuts
    • Translation updates: Arabic, Armenian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Dutch, English (United Kingdom), French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Spanish (Mexico), Turkish, Vietnamese
  • Changes in version 1.5.7
    • Released on July 16, 2016
    • Switched to cross-compiled builds for Windows
    • FIXED: Did not play sounds for key presses with Alt modifier
    • FIXED: Could not change shortcut to disable focused text
  • Changes in version 1.5.6
    • Released on June 22, 2016
    • Updated included hunspell
    • FIXED: Did not remember some default formats
    • FIXED: Replace all did not update spellchecking
    • FIXED: Themes still did not always forget changes
    • Translation updates: Afrikaans (South Africa), Danish, Esperanto, Hebrew, Lithuanian, Spanish
  • Changes in version 1.5.5
    • Released on September 4, 2015
    • Added support for pasting RTF in Windows
    • Switched back to dynamic builds for Windows
    • Updated dictionaries
    • FIXED: Themes did not always forget changes
    • FIXED: Treated every paragraph as a scene when divider is empty
    • FIXED: Switched tabs during autosave
    • FIXED: Allowed pasting and saving invalid null character
    • Translation updates: Catalan, Esperanto, Lithuanian, Portuguese (Brazil)
  • Changes in version 1.5.4
    • Released on June 13, 2015
    • Relax version check of ZIP to handle broken ZIP files
    • Remove deprecated code for unsupported Mac OS X versions
    • Switch to static builds for Windows
    • FIXED: Broken shortcut for disabling focused text in Windows
    • FIXED: Word count did not handle dashes correctly
    • FIXED: Did not use correct line endings in Windows
    • FIXED: Incorrectly sized icon for daily progress
    • FIXED: Crash when importing themes
    • Translation updates: Esperanto, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian
  • Changes in version 1.5.3
    • Released on August 17, 2014
    • FIXED: Find did not take smart quotes into account
    • FIXED: Style hierarchy was not always loaded in ODT
    • FIXED: Ignored text sections in ODT files
    • FIXED: Was not reading styles for OOXML files
    • Translation updates: Hebrew, Portuguese (Brazil), Swedish
  • Changes in version 1.5.2
    • Released on July 20, 2014
    • FIXED: Regression with RtfWriter encoding characters in Windows
    • FIXED: Windows installer did not install shortcut for all users
    • FIXED: Finnish spellchecking did not work in Windows
    • FIXED: Incorrect handling of mimetypes in copy-paste
    • FIXED: Keywords in .desktop file should be separated by semicolons
    • Translation updates: French, Hebrew, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil)
  • Changes in version 1.5.1
    • Released on June 24, 2014
    • Added keywords to .desktop file
    • FIXED: Spelling underline was broken
    • FIXED: Incorrect MIME type for Office Open XML
    • FIXED: Incorrect version number string
    • FIXED: Compile issues with Qt 4.6
    • FIXED: Regression with sound effects on Windows
    • FIXED: Regression with default cursor width on Windows
    • FIXED: Regression where menubar was not shown in Ubuntu
    • Translation updates: Spanish (Mexico), Korean, Swedish
  • Changes in version 1.5.0
    • Released on June 17, 2014
    • Added daily progress dialog
    • Added default themes
    • Added blurring behind text area
    • Added drop shadow behind text area
    • Added duplicating themes
    • Added keyboard shortcuts to move between paragraphs
    • Added option to disable byte order mark
    • Added basic support for Office Open XML files
    • Added Windows installer
    • Include dictionaries on Windows
    • Improved theme dialog
    • Improved background color when loading theme
    • Stopped clearing document cache across runs
    • Synchronized location for open and save dialogs
    • Switched to hunspell
    • Switched to QtZip
    • Refactored daily progress
    • Refactored document cache
    • Refactored spell checking code
    • Translation updates: Armenian, Czech, Dutch, Greek, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Japanese, Romanian, Serbian, Turkish, Chinese (China)
  • Changes in version 1.4.6
    • Released on April 10, 2014
    • FIXED: Smart quotes did not work in Windows
    • FIXED: Formatting was lost when saving pasted text in new document
    • FIXED: Could not change built-in Qt textedit shortcuts
    • FIXED: Session names did not trim whitespace
    • FIXED: Theme names did not trim whitespace
    • FIXED: Did not respect default cursor width
    • FIXED: Session names could not contain periods
    • FIXED: Theme names could not contain periods
    • FIXED: Long session names made session menu unworkable
    • Translation updates: Armenian, Hebrew
  • Changes in version 1.4.5
    • Released on March 25, 2014
    • FIXED: Infinite loop during replace all with regular expressions
    • FIXED: Regular expression replaces did not ignore whole words option
    • FIXED: Interpreted images in RTF files as text
    • FIXED: Context menu key did not show spelling menu
    • FIXED: Could delete all themes
    • FIXED: Did not recreate default theme until program restart
    • FIXED: Created a new tab for corrupted documents
    • FIXED: Reloading a modified file did not reduce daily goal progress
    • FIXED: Unable to overwrite current document
    • FIXED: Discarding a modified file did not reduce daily goal progress
    • FIXED: Locale dialog always prompted users of System Language to restart
    • FIXED: Symbols dialog had help titlebar icon
    • FIXED: Second instance would not open relative paths
    • FIXED: Closing last empty document increased untitled count
    • FIXED: Regular expression searches did not ignore whole words option
    • FIXED: Paragraphs not always focused properly when merged
    • FIXED: Selected session was incorrect when switching sessions was canceled
    • FIXED: Could open unsupported multimedia files
    • FIXED: Hyphenated lines were not focused properly
    • Translation updates: Arabic, Chinese (China), Czech, English (United Kingdom), Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Korean, Indonesian, Serbian, Vietnamese
  • Changes in version 1.4.4
    • Released on May 31, 2013
    • FIXED: Crashed when opening font dropdown in theme dialog
    • FIXED: Did not always ignore changes made by program
    • FIXED: Smart quotes were incorrect after opening punctuation
    • Translation updates: German, Greek, Hebrew, Indonesian, Russian, Turkish
  • Changes in version 1.4.3
    • Released on April 6, 2013
    • FIXED: Unsaved new files were not restored from cache
  • Changes in version 1.4.2
    • Released on March 27, 2013
    • Added support for Qt 5
    • FIXED: Did not play key press sound for non-Latin languages
    • FIXED: Crash when ignoring words in spelling dialog
    • FIXED: Could not end italics before smart quote
    • Translation updates: Catalan, Hebrew, Italian, Turkish
  • Changes in version 1.4.1
    • Released on November 28, 2012
    • FIXED: High CPU use in Ubuntu 10.04
    • FIXED: Crashed when typing circumflex with focused text
    • FIXED: Showing scene list moved cursor to start of document
    • FIXED: Played sounds constantly in Ubuntu 10.04
    • FIXED: Could drag scenes in Read-Only files
    • FIXED: Could insert symbols in Read-Only files
    • FIXED: Could paste unformatted in Read-Only files
    • FIXED: Could check spelling of Read-Only files
    • FIXED: Cleared keyboard shortcuts not saved
    • FIXED: Cannot add new keyboard shortcuts with the Shift key
    • Translation updates: Chinese (China), Czech, Greek, Hebrew, Romanian, Swedish, Spanish
  • Changes in version 1.4.0
    • Released on September 22, 2012
    • Added scene list sidebar
    • Added focusing text
    • Added line spacing in themes
    • Added symbols dialog
    • Added monitoring files for changes
    • Added editable keyboard shorcuts
    • Allow changing formats in save dialogs
    • Switched to enchant for spell checking
    • Check spelling in background
    • Removed included dictionaries
    • FIXED: Could not save to WebDAV
    • FIXED: Insert key did not switch to overwrite mode
    • FIXED: Hiding toolbar did not shrink header
    • FIXED: Regression - SDL_mixer was not loaded in Debian
    • FIXED: Could save over files open on other tabs
    • FIXED: Switching themes still wasn't properly focusing text
    • FIXED: Theme previews did not scale tiled or centered images
    • FIXED: Warned user twice about every malformed file
    • FIXED: Could not interact with dialogs during load
    • FIXED: Did not check spelling of pasted paragraphs
    • FIXED: Regression - Windows did not load SDL
    • FIXED: Regression - fallback icons were not used
    • FIXED: File rename did not change formats
    • FIXED: Default shortcuts conflicted on the Mac
    • FIXED: Restoring from cache treated all files as plain text
    • FIXED: Filenames were incorrect after undo and redo
    • FIXED: Formatting of first paragraph was lost on reload
    • FIXED: Switching themes wasn't properly focusing text
    • FIXED: Text brought onto current line was not focused
    • FIXED: Replace all could not be reverted with a single undo
    • Translation updates: Chinese (China), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Spanish (Mexico), Swedish, Ukrainian
  • Changes in version 1.3.6
    • Released on June 12, 2012
    • FIXED: Saved cache files more frequently than necessary
    • FIXED: Displayed paths did not use native separators
    • FIXED: Crashed when loading empty RTF files
    • FIXED: Emergency cache files could have broken names
    • FIXED: Was not loading data from emergency cache files
    • FIXED: Emergency cache was not working for rich text
    • FIXED: Data was not always written to disk
    • FIXED: Was adding spaces before pasted rich text
    • FIXED: Inserting text resets alignment
    • Translation updates: Danish, Spanish
  • Changes in version 1.3.5.2
    • Released on January 16, 2012
    • FIXED: Did not handle loading menu icons correctly
    • Translation updates: Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Spanish
  • Changes in version 1.3.5.1
    • Released on December 4, 2011
    • Added scalable icon
    • FIXED: Did not correctly handle multi-byte characters in RTF
    • FIXED: Interface was incorrectly hidden while fullscreen
    • Translation updates: Dutch, German
  • Changes in version 1.3.5
    • Released on November 9, 2011
    • Compress exported themes
    • FIXED: ODT block settings were not respected
    • FIXED: RTF block settings were not respected
    • FIXED: Sometimes did not display opened documents immediately
    • Translation updates: Czech, German, Italian, Polish
  • Changes in version 1.3.4.1
    • Released on October 17, 2011
    • FIXED: Missing Qt translations on the Mac
  • Changes in version 1.3.4
    • Released on October 16, 2011
    • Added support for copying RTF
    • Added basic ODT support
    • FIXED: Regression - changing dictionary required restart
    • FIXED: Always vertically center did not work with new documents
    • FIXED: Printed spellchecking highlights
    • FIXED: Did not load file stats when loading file
    • FIXED: Font names were sometimes inserted at head of document
    • FIXED: Crashed when typing after alert for no sound effects
    • Translation updates: Czech, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Spanish (Mexico), Swedish, Ukrainian
  • Changes in version 1.3.3
    • Released on June 27, 2011
    • Added emergency file cache
    • Replaced icon and load image
    • Improved Mac integration
    • Switched to SDL_mixer instead of libao
    • FIXED: Timers action didn't always use theme icon
    • FIXED: Did not follow toolbar style by default
    • FIXED: Did not raise to front in GNOME2
    • FIXED: Cancelling adding a theme did not work
    • FIXED: Font size always show decimal
    • FIXED: Incorrectly handled paragraph end in RTF
    • FIXED: Played sound effects when text was removed
    • FIXED: Could not type in timer time edit
    • FIXED: Incorrect background color for preferences tabs
    • FIXED: Document details were visible through load screen
    • FIXED: Load screen text was not always monospaced
    • FIXED: Replacing quotes with LaTex quotes did not update all quotes
    • FIXED: Could not scroll over background in Qt/Cocoa
    • FIXED: Regression where text did not fill text area
    • FIXED: Scrollbar did not disappear when mousing into header
    • FIXED: Could not interact with tabs in Qt/Cocoa
    • FIXED: Masked scrollbars still showed a pixel
    • FIXED: SDL_mixer was not loaded in most Linux distros
    • FIXED: Documents were visible when resizing window
    • FIXED: No sound on characters inserted with "compose" key
    • FIXED: Large documents were not centered
    • FIXED: Documents were sometimes displayed truncated
    • FIXED: Could not access menubar while fullscreen in Unity
    • FIXED: Could not leave fullscreen in Unity
    • FIXED: Closing the color picker does not return focus to theme dialogs
    • FIXED: Wasn't switching to already opened document
    • FIXED: Dropping files on main window pasted URLs in KDE
    • FIXED: Qt translations were not deployed on the Mac
    • FIXED: Word count issue with Persian/Farsi
    • FIXED: Forgot new documents saved when closed
    • Translation updates: Czech, French, German, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Spanish (Mexico)
  • Changes in version 1.3.2.1
    • Released on December 29, 2010
    • FIXED: Crashed when typing
    • Translation updates: Spanish (Mexico)
  • Changes in version 1.3.2
    • Released on December 28, 2010
    • Added rounded corners to themes
    • FIXED: Ubuntu panels appeared when find dialog was shown
    • FIXED: Jumped while selecting text and scrolling
    • FIXED: Statistics and centering were broken for large documents
    • FIXED: Was recentering when backspacing at end of document
    • FIXED: Header stayed visible when menus closed
    • FIXED: Could not select text where header is shown
    • FIXED: Header wasn't shown when menus were shown by keyboard shortcuts
    • FIXED: Toolbar outline stayed visible when it was expanded
    • FIXED: Automatic spellchecking highlighted current word
    • FIXED: Did not inform user when archives have no dictionaries
    • FIXED: Brazilian Portuguese translation could not open all files
    • FIXED: Portuguese translation had incorrect file extension
    • FIXED: Could not scroll over padding
    • FIXED: Could not add words with smart quotes to personal dictionary
    • FIXED: Could add word to personal dictionary multiple times
    • FIXED: Played typewriter sounds for non-printing keys
    • FIXED: Did not center for themes with padding
    • Translation updates: Czech, French, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish
  • Changes in version 1.3.1
    • Released on October 28, 2010
    • Added typewriter sound effects
    • FIXED: Sometimes segfaulted when scrolling
    • FIXED: The C locale was assumed to be UTF-8
    • FIXED: New documents were always centered
    • FIXED: Replace required clicking twice
    • FIXED: Text indents were different sizes
    • FIXED: Did not handle opening Read-Only files
    • FIXED: Did not prompt when there was an error saving files
    • FIXED: Closed even when unable to save files
    • FIXED: Preferences dialog was too big for small screens
    • FIXED: Save As completed even if saving failed
    • FIXED: Crashed if preview image was not created
    • FIXED: Font size was not always listed
    • FIXED: Panels were visible when mouse was over padding
    • FIXED: Informed user of Read-Only status of already open files
    • FIXED: Could not switch to rich text
    • FIXED: Could not update smart quotes for plain text files
    • Translation updates: French, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish
  • Changes in version 1.3.0
    • Released on September 23, 2010
    • Added text formatting
    • Added smart quotes
    • Added session management
    • Added timers and alarms
    • Added importing and exporting themes
    • Added selected text statistics
    • Added dictionaries for supported languages
    • FIXED: Tab focus incorrect in some dialogs
    • FIXED: Text direction broken with Qt 4.7
    • FIXED: Default theme font incorrect
    • FIXED: Created empty tabs for unreadable files
    • FIXED: Warned about losing formatting of empty files
    • FIXED: Could not open symlinked files
    • FIXED: Could always change background image
    • FIXED: Could open empty recent timers menu
    • FIXED: Window background visible during resize
    • FIXED: Window could be made smaller than theme
    • FIXED: Default session was ignored
    • FIXED: File name not updated in interface when changed
    • FIXED: Allowed opening the same document twice
    • FIXED: Save dialog permanently stealing mouse focus
    • Translation updates: French, Portuguese
  • Changes in version 1.2.2
    • Released on July 1, 2010
    • Added portability support
    • Switched to native file dialogs
    • Updated keyboard shortcuts
    • Updated included libraries
    • Translation updates: French, Portuguese
  • Changes in version 1.2.1
    • Released on January 22, 2010
    • Added changing text area's horizontal position
    • Added disabling antialiasing
    • FIXED: Scrolling to top didn't work properly in Linux
    • FIXED: Scrollbar wasn't tracking properly
    • FIXED: Highlight was removed when right-clicking
    • FIXED: Only focused document was centered on launch
    • FIXED: Program would crash if dictionary couldn't be found
    • FIXED: Prompted user about replacing a removed dictionary
    • FIXED: Dictionary added most recently was not selected
    • FIXED: Dictionaries couldn't be used immediately
    • FIXED: Dictionary was assumed to use UTF-8 encoding
    • FIXED: Mouse cursor sometimes disappeared when opening files
    • FIXED: Interface was not hidden when mouse left window
    • FIXED: Margins were not correct when using Qt 4.6.0
    • FIXED: Clock did not respect user's locale
    • FIXED: Time daily goal increased when preferences changed
    • Translation updates: French, Portuguese
  • Changes in version 1.2.0
    • Released on July 12, 2009
    • Added spell checking
    • Added document tabs
    • Added menubar
    • Added toolbar customization
    • Added document statistics
    • Added second wordcount algorithm
    • Added option to use block cursor
    • Improved file saving
    • FIXED: Infinite loop when replacing all instances of a word
    • FIXED: Changing all misspelled words didn't start at beginning
    • FIXED: Changing themes increased progress on daily goals
    • FIXED: Newly created themes were not loaded
    • FIXED: Not properly centering opened documents
  • Changes in version 1.1.2
    • Released on May 31, 2009
    • Use UTF-8 character encoding for files
  • Changes in version 1.1.1
    • Released on May 10, 2009
    • FIXED: Was always launching with time based goals
  • Changes in version 1.1.0
    • Released on April 19, 2009
    • Added daily goals
    • Added support for themes
    • Added find and replace
    • Changed default centering
    • FIXED: Crash when first sentence was deleted
    • FIXED: Image selection dialog not showing last visited path
    • FIXED: Highlighted text using page alpha
  • Changes in version 1.0.0
    • Released on October 23, 2008
    • New project