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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:
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
What's New
Version 3.0.9:
Bugfixes:
- Bean Preferences > New > Custom > Choose Template now defaults to the user’s Templates folder (since Lion 10.7 make is almost impossible to navigate there) (20120401-1).
- Added live updating of text ruler offset for layout views when a window is resized (20120311-1).
- File > Revert to Saved no longer forgets the font used with plain text files (20120317-1).
- File > Revert to Saved is now only active when the document has changed from the saved version (20120317-2).
- File > Revert to Saved now restores the saved typing attributes of empty documents (20120317-4).
- File > New Plain Text Document (cmd+option+n) could fail to show the Settings menu in the main menu. Fixed (20120317-3).
- The side bar document list (Documents > Side bar) now resolves aliases dropped from Finder (20120317-5).
- The side bar document list now has a minimum size slightly more than zero to prevent it from disappearing completely (20120320-2).
- There is now a hidden preference to remove the gray hatched tiled pattern from the layout view background. Quit Bean, then use this terminal command (change YES to NO to reverse the setting):
defaults write com.bean-osx.Bean prefLayoutViewNoTexture -bool YES
- Added Catalan localization, courtesy Toni Cama.
- Added Italian localization, courtesy Stefano Carlini.
Version 3.0.9:
Bugfixes:
- Bean Preferences > New > Custom > Choose Template now defaults to the user’s Templates folder (since Lion 10.7 make is almost impossible to navigate there) (20120401-1).
- Added live updating of text ruler offset for layout views when a window is resized (20120311-1).
- File > Revert to Saved no longer forgets the font used with plain text files more...
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
Bean User Discussion (Write a Review)
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| Downloads:171,754 |
| Version Downloads:3,571 |
| Type:Business : Word Processing |
| License:Free |
| Date:22 Apr 2012 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price:Free |
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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:
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
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THEE:LEE reviewed on 02 May 2012
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DelportF reviewed on 25 Apr 2012
A must have for every OS X user. Incredible this is free too.
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MetroMrX reviewed on 05 Apr 2012
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On my mind today: Bean still does not handle text files (opening/saving/creating) in a sensible way. One has to use templates or set the defaults for a new file to get decent settings for text files, and then these defaults overwrite things so that you can't get decent defaults for RTF files.
Also, Bean does not correctly save open files when quitting, a la Lion. Further, holding the Option key when quitting does nothing—it's supposed to override the save-open-documents setting.
There are other problems. The icons in the sidebar don't do much of anything; you can't drag them to re-order them or drag them to other app icons to open them. In fact, you can't drag them to anywhere because there is no action to click-dragging. This kind of behavior is pretty much expected in Mac apps but is missing in this program.
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Greedyfranky reviewed on 16 Mar 2012
There is simply no reason not to use this great text editor.
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Nikitsky reviewed on 09 Mar 2012
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Dejmac reviewed on 09 Mar 2012
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Anotheruser reviewed on 08 Mar 2012
But I am removing one star for this line in the description: "All of Cocoa's good stuff", which would be true if the developer had not given up on adding what I consider to be one of the best Cocoa features out there: scripting (specifically, AppleScript of course), even after I had hacked an earlier version so that the resulting build had rudimentary scripting support. Then I'm taking another half star off for ending the availability of the source code past version 2. Apart from those disappointments, it is great software.
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Kzx72 reviewed on 28 Feb 2012
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taja reviewed on 27 Feb 2012
Would also be great if they could be rearranged and if there was a '+' button on the tab bar to create new documents.
but these are tiny niggles. Great piece of software.
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You can drag the borders of the text zone to the border of the window, but you'll have to do so each time, what a bore!!! And no way to save it as a template, AFAIK. Is it the MSWord syndrome? ;-) (i.e. "hard to do simple things")
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More: it just crashed while I was only scrolling the menus to see if ther was a language selection somewhere... No Help, The 'About Bean' doesn't even show, the 'move to separate window' function gives strange results (the original window simply disappear, the new one is but a 5mm square that you have to expand manually...
To me it's definitely a Béta!
Hope for you the Intel version is better (I'm on PPC)
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If you want text to run the entire width of your screen, set Prefs > Size > Limit Draft View Width... to 100%. But most full screen word processors / web pages / reader apps etc. do not present text that way, simply because people don't like it. Feel free to mail me the crash report or a bug report describing any problems.
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The Draft settings work ok, thanks! (but why not setting them to 100%? I can't see the point of having grey zones instead... people are strange if they like it that way! ;-D)
For the rest, I can only confirm the absence of reaction when I click on 'About Bean' and 'Help' and the strange behaviour of the 'move to separate window' function (even after throwing the prefs).
I have no crash report (it only crashed once when Bean 2.4.4 was open at the same time...), but if this can help, I'm on iMac G5 10.5.8)
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Re: the draft margins...all full-screen word processors, Safari reader, Kindle reader, and webpages in general try to limit the width of text beyond a certain width because its easier to read. In most windowed word processors you have to narrow the window to get this effect when in draft mode; yet, people like to work in layout mode with the window maximized (just look around in a coffee shop sometime to confirm this). This innovation in Bean (resizable draft width) allows the two views to work efficiently in the same window size.
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27/12/11 14:43:25 Bean[24719] *** -[NSURL initWithString:relativeToURL:]: nil string parameter
27/12/11 14:43:28 Bean[24719] *** -[NSURL initWithString:relativeToURL:]: nil string parameter
27/12/11 14:43:28 Bean[24719] *** -[NSURL initWithString:relativeToURL:]: nil string parameter
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All is quite well, only the 'move to separate window' glitch remains, but I don't need this feature, so for me it's ok!
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Thanks !
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Bean does allow you to add images, but not with all file types. You can use "Save As..." to select a file type that handles images. i haven't tried them all, but the .rtfd extension does allow images to be included in the document.
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How frustrating for you. I just experimented by inserting images in several formats (pict, jpeg, png, pdf) by using both the Insert command and drag and drop method. The resulting document (.rtfd) displayed correctly in Bean and other text editors.
I should say that I am using the latest non-beta version of Bean and OS X 10.5.6.
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OSX-FTW! rated on 20 May 2012
alpery1974 rated on 23 Apr 2012
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Lightning rated on 07 Apr 2012
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MetroMrX rated on 05 Apr 2012
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JacobsIvan rated on 19 Mar 2012
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JacobsIvan rated on 19 Mar 2012
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Nikitsky rated on 09 Mar 2012
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CloudB rated on 08 Mar 2012
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beta.lab rated on 24 Feb 2012
xdefeenx rated on 23 Feb 2012