The essence of Zen is simplicity. Zen art — gardens, paintings, poetry, decor, the zendo itself — are all about getting beyond the process and into the meat of things. Zenware as a term may be cutesy, but it is quite precise.

Darkroom, WriteRoom and Spaces, along with those other applications that clear the desktop of distractions, are about the essence of writing. It is true that I know probably one-tenth of the things that Word can do. It is also true that I do 99% of my composition in a simple text editor, white on black, with an occasional bit of HTML if needed. The lack of formatting ability forces me to focus on what I am writing, not just the bells and whistles. I can paste it into Word (or Buzzword) and tart it up later, if I need to.

I rarely need to.