Check out the demo video here! And check out the most recent post for a recap of how the Jam went.
Digital paper is a text editor inspired by the limitations of paper. You can erase text, but it will never reflow the text for you, like writing with a pencil. It forces you to commit to what you've written, and to think more clearly before you write. It forces you to present your ideas linearly, as you can't go back and revise earlier parts with new information. These are some of the reasons why some people prefer to write on paper. Digital Paper is meant as a tool for these people, who like how paper influences how they think and present their ideas, but who want to put their ideas into a computer.
Fully committing to the paper concept, there is no text buffer and it does not save a text file. When a character is typed, it is written to pixels, and the document is saved as a PNG.
Features:
- Navigate through past text with the cursor. You can edit by deleting previous characters and typing in the blank space.
- If you don't have quite enough space to make your edit, you can adjust the text width to be skinnier. Or, make it wider to fill extra space.
- Switch to "free cursor" mode by pressing escape to allow the cursor to move freely in the document, without being constrained by the existing character spacing. This allows precise placement of text when desired.
- Save and load documents as PNG. Note that you can open and edit any existing PNG.
Here's a longer document composed in the editor (from EWD978):
