There are times when all we need to do is write. Really crank out the text. (For me, that's most of the day.) We don't need distractions and we don't need a bloated, expensive word processor with way too many features and way too slow a load time (I'm looking at you, Microsoft Word).

What we need is a minimalist, distraction-free word processor - and being the cheapskates that we are, we want it free.