I generally like distraction free writing environments, but i doubt that it's really a good idea to have such without the ability to open / manage multiple "files". 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.
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Sorry, originally I had some functionality so that changing URL hash gives you a new file. At some point I switched this to using location.pathname and broke it. Let me add it back :)
It's not the first one I've seen, but the general idea is that it lets you write in a completely distraction free environment (when you full-screen it).
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'd already written before I finish writing what I wanted to write. This tool helps me not do the root of all evil.
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's definitely a useful feature.
You can't, there was a bug in my code when run on firefox fullscreen.
Formatting options would be nice, for now you can copy some text from an external HTML document and it will preserve the formatting. You can then edit this text.
Yeah right now there is only saving as the browser allows (print to PDF is another way). I'll add support for saving as a .txt on cmd-S through HTML5 download API in a bit.
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.
Nonetheless, nice tool!