Move the pointer over each of these icons to view its interface options. When typing, you see only the text on the screen, but when you move the pointer, you see a group of circular icons to the right. OmmWriter Dana also uses a very small underscore cursor that can be difficult to spot when editing text and moving around in a document.Ī minimalist approach is used for accessing preferences, as well. The fonts are solid, but with my aging eyes on a 27-inch Cinema Display, even at the largest size I wanted to be able to increase the font size a bit more than the program allows. The program’s display options are limited to four sizes each of four different fonts: a proportional and non-proportional sans serif font, a serif font, and a cursive font.
If you want to print, you need to export to PDF or RTF, and then print from within another program. Unlike with some other programs, there’s no live preview of Markdown or HTML documents, and you can’t print from the program.
You can export to PDF or RTF, but you can’t apply WYSIWYG styles-just Markdown or HTML code for formatting. Unfortunately, you can’t change the volume for the music or typing sounds they both play at set volumes, and some of the typing sounds are a bit loud.Īs with many writing apps of this type, OmmWriter is text-only. There are also seven different typing sounds in case you want audible feedback of keystrokes. They range in length from about 7 minutes to roughly 19 minutes, so the longest ones won’t repeat very quickly, but over long writing sessions, I certainly noticed the musical hamster wheel. While these sounds are interesting, they can get old pretty quickly. These range from ringing bells to ambient piano music, and they include one with the sound of people in a library and another that, in the developer’s words, “tries to simulate the sounds that an unborn child would hear inside the mother’s womb.” Another feature is the inclusion of seven different musical soundtracks designed to help you focus.