Show HN: Aquietplace, a small writing tool

I generally like distraction free writing environments, but i doubt that it&#x27;s really a good idea to have such without the ability to open &#x2F; manage multiple &quot;files&quot;. If you have to type everything into one textbox, without the possibility to switch context, you are IMO likely to be distracted by what you wrote earlier.<p>Nonetheless, nice tool!

I don&#x27;t mean to be rude, but what is the utility for this ?<p>There is plenty of text editor out there, many of them are very good. What is the added value of this tool ?

I tried it with Opera Android and I get a cursor in a white page. I can type but nothing else. Is this a desktop only editor? I sometimes use this tablet to type or annotate Google docs files so there is definitely some space for mobile editors.

I love the black background in full screen feature a lot. I have actually wanted to write this (trivial)tool myself. I do not like others (around me) to read my blog posts or emails before I finish writing them. And this is perfect for getting the initial draft to work with. I usually am distracted by what I&#x27;d already written before I finish writing what I wanted to write. This tool helps me not do the root of all evil.<p>Now the black background in full screen thing seems like a bug to some of you. I think it was unintended too (given the name - aquietplace). But it&#x27;s definitely a useful feature.

Thanks for the votes :) The code is here if anyone wants to modify it (this site is hosted on github pages):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;joevennix&#x2F;aquietplace" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;joevennix&#x2F;aquietplace</a>

It was not obvious to me how to save my work, other than as a webpage.

I swear by plaintext text editors for pretty much any kind of (non-coding) writing work but nothing beats TextEdit (OS X built-in) in plaintext mode with a good fixed-size font.

Nice, but full screen mode won&#x27;t accept input on OS X 10.10.3 using Safari 8.0.5.<p>I can input in the browser and it shows fine. If I full screen it the text remains but it ignores input.

In full screen mode, the entire screen goes black. It still accepts input, but I can&#x27;t actually see what is being typed.<p>This is on Mac OSX 10.10.3, using Firefox 37.0.2.

If it could save automatically to a note in evernote&#x2F;dropbox&#x2F;whatever with a name automatically created from date of creation, it would be great.

Doesn&#x27;t do anything in Safari, it&#x27;s just a textarea. Is it supposed to give you a unique URL per document?

Nice. I was unable to type in full screen mode, using Chrome.