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 ...

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 ...

Most note-taking apps promise structure, but at some point, they just add friction. I’ve probably tried about a dozen notes apps by now, and started wondering if they’re actually making the process ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Highlighting text in a PDF document is handy for marking important areas you can access later. You can use Microsoft Edge to highlight PDF or any other software with a PDF highlighting feature.