a timocracy of one

For a long time I’ve wanted to be able to click onto my desktop and jot down a quick note, keeping that as my background. I looked for ways to do that via ActiveDesktop and never found exactly what I was looking for (it should be doable, but I didn’t try and implement it myself or anything). Well, now I’ve found something close enough.

I found a link to WriteRoom on one of the blogs I read, and that had a link to a Windows version, DarkRoom. While the original intent seems to be to give you a very simple fullscreen editor (to help minimize distractions), if you instead set width and height to auto in the prefs, and don’t fullscreen it, you get what I was looking for, or close enough. Of course, it covers up any icons on your desktop, but I thought those were clutter anyways.