Plain-text fans rejoice as Writer gains native CommonMark import and export Markdown has been around for more than 20 years, but native support in LibreOffice might suddenly help to make it viable for ...

There are basically two kinds of people who want to write things in plain text files: those who have to deal with weird, intractable cross-platform formatting issues, and those who just like the ...

There’s a simple idea about productivity and writing: almost anything you need to do, you can do in a plain text file. By a plain text file, I mean a .txt file that contains nothing but text without ...

The Textor app opens files in place--so when you save the file, it saves immediately to the service / destination from which it was opened. How to create and edit plain text files in iOS with Textor ...

OS X: Plain text is plain text, but if it has an unusual file extension that the Finder doesn't understand then it'll assume it's something else. This is particularly problematic with QuickLook, the ...

I used Todoist for years because of its many features, which I thought I needed to organize my work and get things done. Ironically, the more I used it, the less work I completed. That's because it ...

Computer scientists have invented FontCode, a way to embed hidden information in ordinary text by imperceptibly changing the shapes of fonts in text. The hidden information persists even when ...

I save a lot of stuff into OmniFocus: bits of text, URLs, emails. I used to save favorite tweets into it, too. The app’s Quick Entry panel is so easy to invoke and so well-integrated with core parts ...