I've pushed a new version of org-writers-room to the repo, https://github.com/titaniumbones/org-writers-room
It's still rather simple, but some of the awful usability bugs are less severe: - org-writers-room can only be called from an org-mode buffer - when disabled, org-writers-room gets rid of the extra windows it created Doesn't restore a pre-existing windowing setup yet, unfortunately -- I would love some advice about how to do that. - the guide window displays a half-decent collapsed outline of the document by default. Unfortunately, one you start typing the guide mode starts to display your new text. I don't know if there's a way around this, and probably it would be better to use one of the existing outline modes for the guide window, but I don't know how to use those. Maybe Thorsten or someone can comment on how to improve that. I would also like to figure out better ways to manipulate the metadata -- there must be an "org-next-property" or a way to simulate it with org-element, but I haven't figured it out yet... Anyway, it's a start. Still very eager to hear from people trying it out, or who would like to help out (I'm so slow!!!). Thanks, Matt