The Joy of Full Screen Writing Mode
I have found my happy spot when writing. It’s the full screen writing mode quite a few writing applications now provide. I first saw these in WriteRoom and Scrivener, but now it’s a part of Pages as well. The implementation in Pages is really nice. All the formatting lovely of Pages with no distractions when you don’t want them.
These days, if you run into me at the cafe, this is what you’ll probably see:
I love this way of working so much that I really wish my favorite code editors—such as BBEdit—featured a full screen mode. Sounds a bit ludicrous and modal, I’ll grant. And, one would have to sort out how to elegantly put a list of files in the margin that wouldn’t clutter things up. But, this full screen thing is pretty cool for some tasks.
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It's not quite as good as a real full-screen mode, but there are applications which can fade out the background for any running app; Freeverse's Think is one of them:
http://www.freeverse.com/mac/product/?id=7013
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It won't help for your use but Visual Studio, Microsoft's IDE for .NET development, has offered a full screen mode for several years... it can be nice when one wants to code like a madman.
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Evernote also has full screen editing. I recently learned that the small screen on my netbook is great for doing full screen writing. Doing full screen on a large desktop monitor feels kind of awkward - there's just too much blank space.
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I use "Isolator" for programs that don't have this behavior built in.
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