For preservation, file formats matter just as much as the storage medium.

In an era of feature-rich productivity apps, collaboration dashboards, and AI-powered knowledge systems, a surprising number of high performers rely on something far simpler. Plain text files. No ...

Textor is a free iOS app that lets users easily create and edit plain text files in place from the Files app–a task that was a hassle. Creating and editing plain text files in iOS, especially when ...

Most proprietary note-taking apps try to solve every single problem and therefore keep adding more features. Each one has databases, block systems, AI assistants, dashboards, all of it. On paper, it ...

Suppose you have a plain text file on your iPhone and iPad, and you want to quickly append text to it. What’s the fastest way to do that? I recently found myself pondering this question in the context ...

Apple’s Notes app has gotten great in iOS 11 and macOS High Sierra. It’s fast, it’s easy to clip content to new and existing notes, search is instant, and you can collect pretty much anything into a ...

If you keep on changing TextEdit from rich text mode to plain text each time you open the app, here's how you can change the default settings in the often-used text-editing tool. TextEdit is arguably ...

Formatting is easily one of the biggest annoyances when copying text from the web into a local document. That’s not a problem if you’re using a plain text editor like Sublime Text, but it becomes a ...