When they teach typing in school, teachers tell you to keep your eyes on the screen and feel the keys with your fingertips. But for me - and I’m not the only one, just look at the app’s more critical commenters on the App Store - typing is a tactile experience. OmmWriter’s defenders may now call me a mouth-breathing simpleton for my poor touchscreen typing skills. Near as I can tell, this thing doesn’t do autocorrect. Instead, it was an exercise in unnerving frustration. If you want to listen to something else, you can easily play that through the iPad’s built-in music player, but at that point you’re almost defeating the purpose of buying OmmWriter in the first place.īut for me, OmmWriter’s lack of one feature in particular made using it nothing like the peaceful, meditative experience it aims for. You’re also limited to the background themes and ambient tracks that are bundled into the app from the get-go. However, what some users would call “distractions,” others would call “basic features that I’d expect to get in a $5 app.” There isn’t any direct integration here with other apps except Mail (and iTunes - you can on- and offload content as. OmmWriter is all about eliminating distractions. You can tuck whatever you’ve written into an email, but for everything else, well, that’s what copy and paste are for. It’s purely for writing - not DropBoxing, not tweeting, not making funny Facebook posts, not dragging in new photos or formats. All it needs to do next is brew you up a cup of camomile and it’s set. It drowns out noise with shot of sonic Valium, puts a pretty watercolor-esque design under the text box, and gives you a comfortable spot to put pen to paper.
Did I mention this app is really into minimalism? Maybe in the minds of some users, that’s part of its beauty.
It’s a bit more modern and minimalistic, and it can be slightly expanded with a finger spread and moved around the screen if you prefer a higher position.Īnd that’s about where we stop. The keyboard is also not your standard iOS arrangement. You can also select from among four different fonts and four text sizes. OmmWriter provides a little more variety in your stationery selection - from snowy fields (with animated snow) to a fleshy sort of pink to a gray that may be the best selection for low-light environments. Visually, most iOS typing takes place on backgrounds that are either stark white or legal-pad-yellow. Again, if that’s your thing, there its is otherwise you can shut that sound off as well. They’re all gentle clicks, squeaks, bleep-bloops, etc. You can also select from an array of sounds the keyboard makes as you write. OmmWriter comes with seven tracks, or you can turn the background sounds off. I don’t typically have ambient sounds playing when I write (or do anything else), but after trying it a few minutes I accept that some may find this a very comfortable way to work. They’re not all musical - the ever-popular chirping crickets number makes an appearance, along with one that I think sounded like someone falling asleep in a bathtub while the neighbor did some vacuuming. OmmWriter has built-in ambiant tracks that hum in the background as you do your thing. It’s really just for typing text, but the way it’s laid out is meant to be a bit cushier on the brain than a silent, stark-white screen.įirst, there are sounds. OmmWriter is a minimalistic note-writing app that presents a softer, slightly less utilitarian interface style.
Then there are those who prefer to write to the sounds of mellow ambient music and bleep-bloop keyboard sound effects, typing on a screen that looks kind of like pastel stationery. Some people get energized when there’s a flurry of activity going on around their heads others want nothing less than total sensory deprivation. Whether or not that’s ideal for you is a personal matter. Writing those sorts of messages can require a certain amount of concentration and focus too, but they’re usually composed in places like offices or coffee shops, not Zen gardens. Some of them do this purely because they generally hate company, but for others it’s only because they want a completely distraction-free environment in which to assemble what they hope will be an utter masterpiece of literature.īut escaping to the hinterlands of Montana isn’t convenient or practical when all you’re really trying to put together is a memo, a long email or a general journal entry. They’ll lock themselves in faraway cabins, attics, basements, bunkers, car trunks or wherever else they think they can get some peace and quiet. Writers have a long tradition of crawling under rocks in order to do what they do.
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