Bean: An OS X Word Processor
I wrote my latest essay using Bean, a very able and stripped down word processor. It has pretty much everything I need for a short (undergraduate essay) document - rich text format (with pictures) full screen editing to hide everything else, word count so you know when you can go to bed 
Its the right price (free) and remarkable stable and slick. I’d recommend it to anyone running aon older mac or who hates (like me) too many toolbars, commands, and Things that Get In The Way.
It doesn’t have styles, so any document longer than a few thousand words, or that needs a table of contents is a problem. Along with TextWrangler for code, its a keeper.
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