Bean 2.0.1b

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 2.0.1beta fixes a problem that could prevent Bean from being run under multiple user accounts.

Version 2.0 beta:

• Support for multiple text columns on a page
• Bean tries to maintain the cursor location and/or the visible text area upon view change
• The new document template can be specified in Preferences Cocoa autosave was added; the old ‘autosave’ is now a timed backup
• Many new Preference settings
• Some nasty bugs were fixed involving:
  • document change counts
  • resolution independence
• Reviewed and refactored all the code (still needs lots more ‘objectification’)

Website
Download Bean