Write! is a distraction-free plain text editor. That means no ribbons, no toolbars, no complex menus to get in your way: initially at least it's just you, the screen and the keyboard.

There are still plenty of features here, of course. A tabbed interface; drag and drop editing; spell checking; text searching with regular expressions; self-learning autocomplete, automatic document saving, and useful document stats (words, characters, characters + spaces, reading time, characters you've written per minute and the words per day).

All the usual hotkeys work, too: Ctrl+N for New, Ctrl+F to find, Ctrl+S to save and so on. There are further shortcuts for Write!'s custom features - Ctrl+. to turn the spellchecker on and off, say - and a Shortcuts Manager helps you redefine any or all of these to suit your needs.

Selecting and right-clicking text is another way to access commands, from basic text formatting (style/ case/ colour) to calling up various web resources (Google/ Translate/ Wikipedia/ Thesaurus).

It's also easy to add clickable links, and Write! even supports wiki syntax: =1st level Heading=, ==2nd level Heading==, *bulleted list, [http://wri.tt/Write!] links, and so on.

And when it's time to work on something else for a while, pressing Alt+' minimises the program to the system tray, and recalls it when necessary.