Bean is lean, fast, and uncluttered. If you get depressed at the thought of firing up MS Word or OpenOffice, try Bean.
If you use Text Edit but have to jump through hoops just to get a word count or change the margins, try Bean.
If you’re pining away for Write Now-esque simplicity or just want a low-pressure writing environment, try Bean.
Features:
• a live word count
• a Get Info panel for in-depth statistics
• a zoom-slider to easily change the view scale
• an Inspector panel with lots of sliders
• date-stamped backups
• autosaving
• a page layout mode
• an alternate colors option (e.g., white text on blue)
• an option to show invisible characters (tabs, returns, spaces)
• selection of text by text style, paragraph style, color, etc.
• a floating windows option (like Stickies has)
• easy to use menus
• remembers cursor postion (excluding .txt, .html, .webarchive formats)
• all of Cocoa’s good stuff (dictionary, word completion, etc.)
• please keep in mind that Bean is betaware
What’s new:
Version 1.1:
• Added OpenDocument and Word 2007 file format support (in OS X 10.5 Leopard only)
• shrink the Inspector: click the disclosure triangle to hide all Spacing controls
• added Edit > Insert > Signature Line menu action (user suggestion)
• added new header option: Subject (from Get Properties…)
• new toolbar items: Full Screen, Get Properties…, Show Invisibles (I’m to blame for the icons for these - JH)
• Inspector controls now work even when a document is empty
• updated the Help file (the File Formats page describes the new formats)
• the context menu you see when double-clicking a page’s margin in layout view is now localizable
• removed some stray NSLog debug messages! various fixes to help the Inspector follow changes better
