StimuWrite 2

StimuWrite2 and the first iteration REALLY genuinely helped me with the last ?????? years of university - I really struggled with starting writing, having the word count goal with the emotes coming up when I reached it was a massive help, especially if then I actually surpassed that goal, I felt VERY productive haha. Also at the time I didn't have a clickyclicky keyboard so having the option of brain-friendly sounds made it more fun to just start typing and see what happens! I graduated this year and now I'm getting back into writing fanfiction [that's the idea anyway] and I know StimuWrite will definitely help me! 

I love love love this app. It's helped me write so much faster. I think the only thing I would  want back from previous iterations is to be able to have the wide screen back. Instead of filling the whole screen with the background. I can't add two pictures for some reason but I with there was an option to go back to this. Or to extend the text box. Other than that, I love this app and recommend it to all my friends as well as some of the students I work with at school.

Does the auto-export work with crashes? I also noticed today that, out of curiosity, I went and shut down stimuwrite and opened one of the exported files but it was blank. Not sure if it's a bug or not, but I thought I'd let you know.

Hi, I like this app a lot, but sometimes I have trouble starting it. I get an error report from my graphics driver (AMD) that says, "AMD software detected that a driver timeout has occurred on your system." I did have issues with crashing before that, but that was fixed after I updated this app. My app is currently on the newest version as far as I can tell, so I would like to know if there is a solution to this. Thank you!

hey, i’ve been looking for a text writing application that exports to human-usable html and it turns out stimuwrite is almost EXACTLY what i needed! i cannot wait to blog with this, thank you!! i’d love it if the “export as html using markdown syntax” option also supported the markdown syntax for creating hyperlinks as well.

Hey! You know I love the product. :)

From my Bluesky skeet (or whatever), my request would be a Cryptids theme pack? I love them all, so dealer's choice. If I have Bigfoot/Mothman/Nessie, whatever, watching over me, I may write better. ha!

Told you it was ridiculous!

Thanks!!

Thank you so so much for creating this! I've written a huge amount of a project after literal years of procrastinating about it, and every neurodivergent person I recommend it to loves it.

hey, awesome app, I have a few suggestions:
a close button inside fullscreen mode
an option to start in fullscreen mode
an option to start with the soundscape on as it seems to reset to off after closing
an option to use custom fonts
an option to store and restore the hidden/visible state of the side panel

Oh, small bug that might be intentional design: It looks like the preset emojis for the Vaporwave theme override my custom emojis, just like they override the default. That's not a huge issue, especially since I only use the Vaporwave theme every now and then, but I thought I'd mention it.

Hi there! No glitches or issues this time, I just wanted to drop some ideas for future releases (or for independent theme-makers out there) while I had them in my head. Loving the program! :)

• I'd love to see some more green/cottagecorey palettes for the themes! You know, themes that would fit in with the Waterfall background. Maybe a theme styled like an arbor or something? Green and white, green and brown, kind of those softer earthier color palettes.
• A summer night ambience (crickets/frogs), or a night-in-the-woods sort of soundscape. A gentle misting rain in a jungle sounds really soothing, too, if you can find a sound like that. That may be what the below commenter means.
• Seasonal backgrounds/seasonal themes sound really cute! I love playing those wintertime ambience videos where it's just a feed of a snowy pond or whatever. I had my girlfriend program a Garry's Mod map where I just walked up on top of a snowy hill and wrote for a while and listened to the atmosphere.
• Maybe seasonal in a "festive" sense. I'm total trash for Halloween-themed/hollydays-themed/Valentine's ambience. I think the pressure would be to put these out "on time", though, which might be too much of a hassle for too little reward? I would buy it, though.
• Something involving trains. Not sure what. I just love RailCowGirl's Youtube channel and I think writing on a train sounds real cozy. This might be way harder to get a background for, though, haha.
• Cottagey stuff in general would be fun.
• A typewriter theme.

hey could you add a gentle rain noises instead of aggressive rain because it overstimulates me negatively could you ad gentle rain noises that isn't too loud ty<3

Hey! I have recently discovered a... bug? Not a bug. I suppose it's a good problem to have, but I have so many awesome themes for Stimuwrite, they don't all display on the screen and there doesn't seem to be a way to scroll down to see the ones at the bottom!

originally said this in the rating, but i realized a comment might make more sense: this software is awesome, but for me the animated backgrounds seem to periodically glitch/flicker strangely. it's a little distracting, so most of the time i turn the animation off. i might be able to record it happening if that's something that would help?

Hi! sorry if this has been asked before, but are you considering adding text formatting (bolding, italics, underline, etc) to Stimuwrite? or the ability to export files as markdown files?

Hello, I liked the idea of the program, but I want a Linux version AppImage

Hi there, big StimuWrite disciple, but lately I’ve been experiencing an issue and I was wondering if I’m the only one! When I leave the StimuWrite window open but tabbed into other applications (I’m sorry, I don’t have an exact estimate but I can hazard a guess around 30 minutes or so), once I tab back in, I can’t interact with any of the UI elements, including the text box to edit/copy my work. :( It’s not that the entire application has frozen since the background still moves, and interestingly enough I can edit and move the sticky note add-on just fine, but things like changing the theme or going full-screen are not possible. Any idea what might be causing this? Thank you so much for everything you do!!

Hi! I’m sorry if you have gotten this question already, or if it’s annoying (I’m aware it could be): Have you considering sharing the source of this app, or allowing user-made add-ons in some way?

I totally understand if not ^^ But I would like to know, if you’re willing to answer.

I would love this even more if it had a spellchecker. Also for some reason I'm getting constant crashing even though my pc is very beefy :(

Hello! I'm not sure if you take suggestions when it comes to something like themes, but if you are, do you think you could add a Pesterchum theme from Homestuck? I think with the way it's set up in HS (a messaging program the characters use within the world they're in), it would be a very fun theme to have since (if you wanted to & if you are able to of course) it would look like you're messaging someone about the things you're writing while still being stimulating! 

Regardless, thank you so much for making this program in the first place, it's saved me so many times when writing stuff for school! :-]

Could you please add in import option that can quickly load the files I've exported? It's a little thing, but I don't like manually opening the files and copying them back into stimuwrite when I want to write more...

Hiya just wanted too say this has made it easier and more fun for me too write. Thank you for making this. I do wanna ask if you will ever make a way too make custom themes. I want too import my own typing sound effects and ambience. It would help me enjoy it even more. Again thanks for making something like this. Keep up the great work :>

Hey, are there any plans to port this app to Android phones? I understand if there are no plans.

Hi! This program has been so so helpful for me, thank you so much for all your hard work.

Apologies if this has already been answered, but I (unfortunately) write in British English and was wondering if there are any plans to support the differing punctuation rules? Eg. a way to change the smart curly quotes to include single quotations/apostrophe and 'replace double hyphen with em dash' to the en dash? If this is a feature already then OOPS! My bad!

i know this isnt intended to fully replace a writing program entirely, but would it ever be possible to add options to format text? bold, italics, indents, line spacing, etc etc. totally get if thats not in the spirit of the program but it'd be nice to have!

When I enter fullscreen mode, some themes don't fill the screen and the main part of the app doesn't fill the screen properly. I'm not sure if this is a bug or if it's to do with my monitor having an outdated aspect ratio, but I do remember older versions of the program not having this issue. I also have 'expand to window' selected in the options and I've tried reinstalling it. Does this seem like a problem with my monitor or will it need to be patched out?

thank you for this wonderful program! it's awesome :] would you please consider adding the atkinson hyperlegible font? I believe that it is available under the SIL open font license. it's my favorite font to use when writing and it would be wonderful if it was available in stimuwrite ^--^ 

I updated to the newest version but when I go to add my themes and add-ons I get "Error 342: The theme or addon already exists." But when I go to Manage Themes & Addons there's nothing there. What am I doing wrong?

This has seriously changed my LIFE, thank you so much for this wonderful program! 

In the next update, would it be possible to add Comic Sans as a font option? Its helpful to those with dyslexia in a similar way to OpenDyslexic, and also personally helps me to take my writing a lot less seriously for a first draft :)  Thank you for the hard work you do!

Hi! First of all I wanted to thank you for creating this app because it is helping me so much to write more and above all to have fun while doing it. However I had a request: would it be possible in the future to add a way to justify the text? It makes everything look neater and allows me to get less distracted. Apart from that, beautiful and very useful app!

Hey can anyone help me with what program I use to open this? I'm on Linux Mint.

I like it ! But I tried exporting a theme using your template from GitHub and it caused the copy on my laptop to freeze . Even after I deleted the theme pkg and did a reinstall through itch.io it still reopens with the broken theme and freezes. Don't have that prob on my surface tab tho cuz I never put the broken theme pkg here. Is there a chance u could make something so we can just add moving wallpapers independent of a whole theme?  Love the app tho.

This software looks like it would suit my needs, but I can't use it. It has errors with Chinese on windows 11, even after I downloaded and installed add-ons and changed the fonts. Hopefully this can be fixed.

EDIT: The creator contacted me very quickly and fixed the error! This is a work well worth buying and supporting!

Hi! I love all the new changes, but I wanted to let you know about a problem I've been having as an Ubuntu user. So, in Ubuntu, I have to make the .desktop file manually to add a shortcut to my Applications list (thanks, itch), but because the name of the executable changes on every version, I have to go in and change the .desktop file manually every time. This means that every time there's an update, my shortcut stops working for a bit. Is there a way the executable filename could go unchanged, or does that just not workable with itch?

[EDIT: Updated the script below to the new version of Stimuwrite, which, according to Eve, will no longer change names going forward. Hooray!]

Also, if anyone also on Ubuntu wants to know how to do what I'm doing, since I had to teach myself: Find your Applications folder; it should be full of .desktop files. Create a new text file and copy-paste this in, modifying the locations and stuff accordingly (unless your name on your computer is also "Imogen" and you also put all your important files in a stupid folder called "Pathways", in which case this'll be super easy for you). Make sure the Exec shows the updated filename.

If you like, download a Stimuwrite icon to input for the Icon section, or just delete that row! I think half of these rows are redundant, but I don't wanna mess with it.

Save the file as stimuwrite.desktop. It may take a little bit to show up, and you might have to open the Applications program to double-check, but I think it should work?

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Stimuwrite
Exec=/home/imogen/.config/itch/apps/stimuwrite/stimuwrite.x86_64
Type=Application
Icon=/home/imogen/Downloads/Pathways/stimuwrite.jpeg
Categories=Game
Terminal=false
StartUpNotify=false
Comment=
NoDisplay=false

I loved “compact mode”, but if I put the software in this mode, minimize it and go back to writing, it crashes/bugs and I have to close and recover what was written in “recover session”.

Really great little app, I have been really enjoying using it :). 

I have one small request tho. Would it be possible, for you to include an image of the icon with the Linux version? You see, on Linux it’s possible to add AppImages to the system’s start menu, but you have to manually add an icon to the entry (note: Linux just uses regular images formats for icons: jpg, png &c). Would be a nice addition, though obviously not essential. 

Anyways, keep up the good work!!!!♥

Really nice little app to help focus on writing! I was wondering, is it possible or will it  be possible to add new fonts?

Omg yay updates!! Happy pride month, thank you! This is my favorite writing tool, I use it to write all my fanfics and headcannons and I'm really glad the typing sounds are working now! I hope to see more in the future!

Howdy! Really enjoy the pride theme pack. The chaos speaks to me... ;)

I also downloaded the update and I'm a little confused about the new export button. Before, when I exported my files they saved as .html which I could open with Firefox and copy-paste from to preserve all the rich formatting. Now they export as .md (which my system defaults to opening with Calibre of all things, which doesn't work) and I don't know what to open the file with so I can read it with formatting intact. Am I missing something?

(FYI, I update manually; so just downloading the new and deleting the old, so I'm not using the itch.io app. I'm also on Windows 10.)

I love this app and it really helps me write! Over the past couple months I have noticed that typing two hyphens (--) doesn't convert to em-dash if there is any text ahead of it. Sometimes I'll write the sentences and decide an em dash looks better than a comma, and when I change it, it just stays as --. It is a very minor inconvenience so I just correct it when I copy it to my main doc, but I figured I would let you know!