Last month, I wrote about clean screen writing where all the extraneous information is removed from the screen and the writer is presented with a “blank page.” In the same vein, Abhinav Tushar has an interesting post on making Org mode itself look like a word processor. By that he means that Org looks like a word processor as you enter text.
Mostly it’s a matter of picking a nice font, a nice background, adjusting the spacing, and getting rid of everything but the text you’re editing. That include hiding all the Org markup and #+ commands. The result, I must admit, looks gorgeous. Still, as I said in the blank page post, it’s not for me. When I’m writing, I like to see the markup because, among other things, it makes it easier to edit the text.
Not everyone will agree, of course, so you should take a look at his results to see if they’re something you’d like. He has links to his configuration so it shouldn’t be hard to recreate his setup or use it as a jumping off place for your own. Even if you don’t want his setup, you might like using a proportional font in Org. He uses the ET Book, which looks very nice. I am impressed at what he was able to do and how nice it looks.