vim-pencil

vim-pencil and goyo are great options for (n)vim users. https://github.com/preservim/vim-pencil https://github.com/junegunn/goyo.vim

Two years ago, I did nanowrimo in Vim with a whole suite of plugins: - https://github.com/preservim/vim-pencil - https://github.com/junegunn/goyo.vim.git - https://github.com/junegunn/limelight.vim.git - https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki It was fun, and the setup is almost identical to iA Writer which I appreciate. I even had it all on my phone with Termux! Last year I just did it in Markdown in VSCode in "zen mode" which also worked pretty well. It was definitely easier to setup than Vim and had better highlighting of bold/italics/etc.

And I don't wanna be that Vim guy, but similarly a mix of these plugins works well for me: https://github.com/junegunn/goyo.vim (distraction free mode) https://github.com/reedes/vim-pencil (better behaviour for writing prose) https://github.com/junegunn/limelight.vim (visual highlighting of current paragraph) https://github.com/plasticboy/vim-markdown (better markdown syntax) https://vim-voom.github.io/ (outliner sidebar) Edit: BTW, for my truly favourite aesthetic experience, I like to pair this setup with a nice dark theme, a high quality font, and cool-retro-term (https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term/) emulating an old school CRT. Is this practical or ergonomic? Nope! But I love it!