(no the screenshot above is not just an empty black screen)

Forget Google Documents and Zoho, Writer by John Watson and BigHugeLabs.com is lean and mean and gets you started immediately. I like Writer for a few reasons, first because it’s black and has the uber geeky green text, and second because it’s so very lean. It welcomes you and asks you to begin typing, saving a document just happens with no fuss and composing new documents is easy as well, all without opening an account even.

The application I was thinking of using this for is composing some of my blog posts, or at least using this tool to check the word count of my WordPress postings. It has a blog posting feature built in, but I haven’t tried that yet.

Here’s what John says about Writer, or rather himself…

Writer was written by me, John Watson. I’m a freelance web developer and I’d love for you to hire me for your next web project. You can find out more about me at: http://watson-net.com/