Thanks for the heads-up. Freeware is always a good thing. :D I'll play with it too.

So far I like what I see but have already found that there are certain things I *need* it to have. The most important of which is the fact that although it "auto-saves" your work, it does so to its own file ~/Library/Application Support/Writeroom/ I work in plain TXT so I would prefer that it allowed me to work on a specific file, in TXT, and auto-save to that file. As it stands you have to "Export Writeroom" to a separate file in order to keep your data as open as possible.

I've been burned one too many times by proprietary file formats.

But the author seems very, very receptive to suggestions on the program so once I finalize my list of must-haves I'll send them his/her way.

My list so far:
- "Esc" or user option for fullscreen toggle
- Default option for saving/working from a txt file, instead of "Export Content"
- User option for Auto-Save time: 5sec., 30sec., 1minute, etc.
- "Bottom Margin" (Like TextWrangler's "Extra space>half page" preference)
- Work/Save to any folder, not "Application Support"

Wow, thanks for this!

Last time I tried this -- I dunno -- I think it wasn't a normal binary or something. I wasn't getting how to make it work, but this is a very promising release.

I tried WriteRoom for a while, but never quite managed to fit it into my workflow. Then I found Megazoomer.

Megazoomer is a SIMBL plugin that expands any cocoa window to full screen. Let that sink in for a minute.

Now I use vim in Terminal.app to do my writing without distraction, which is a huge step up from X11 with ratpoison, though TextEdit works as well; NetNewsWire is in the back, big and ready to roll; and Camino now replaces Safari + Saft for me.

It does have a few bugs. It seems to interfere with Quicksilver sometimes--activating QS only switches QS to the front, rather than keeping a window open for input, which requires another command-space--although this is remedied by restarting QS, something I am used to as a bleeding-edge user of said program. :) Additionally, if the only open windows are all full screen, expos? lines them up rather than distributes them around the screen; my workaround is to simply have a different-sized window available, like a Finder window or Adium. And there's a thin line at the top of Terminal.app for some reason ... but overall, I'm ecstatic with Megazoomer.

Links:
Megazoomer: http://www.ianhenderson.org/megazoomer.html
SIMBL: http://culater.net/software/SIMBL/SIMBL.php
Remove scrollbar from Terminal.app: Courtesy of macOSXhints.com

Anyway, if you're in fullscreen mode here, you can do something similar by playing with the page width and height. I've got 'em set to 860 and 570 (on a 1024x768 screen), and I don't feel claustrophobic at all. (It feels more open if you set the page and background to the same color.)

And yeah, man, I'd like the option to edit files in-place, too. I dunno if that fits in with their vision, though.

Note: DEVONthink Pro and Ulysses both have full-screen modes.

MacJournal (my fave) also has a full screen mode. Merlin has even posted about it before.