Now with #plaintext version
and only 1 dollar

#alttext

Lady sat at a computer ‘with a video screen and two diskette slots’

New post: WordStar: the pre-Microsoft Word days

WordStar was the hand I was dealt when I started working with computers back in the 1980s. It was also probably the cheapest word processor on the market, knowing my boss […]

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Text editor or code block showing a few lines of chext syntax defining chips (chip type, content, maybe a label).

For builders: chips as code. 🧑‍💻

Chext is a plain-text format for chips. Write, paste, done. Or sync with GitHub. Version, automate, script.

#Slatesource #Chext #PlainText #DeveloperTools #GitHubSync #PowerUser #CreatorTools #BuildInPublic

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I’m loving how this text editor is turning out. I was never satisfied with modern text editors so I teamed up with a person to fork one and improve on it by adding basically what I want out of a text editor for fiction writers. Screen reader focus has been improved upon launch. There is now a […]

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The text editor a reader---and fan---is making for me, a fork, got another update. I contributed a small thing to the ReadMe. yayness! I couldn't find a text editor that was really for *me* so now this is coming along nicely! Next is export using Pandoc, for those that need Shun Manuscript […]

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I submitted some updates this morning but yay! A reader wanted to help me out by making a better text editor for me. In particular, one with project based autocorrections, so this way, if I am working on a Fantasy Romance, me typing, tk, won't bleed over into my journalism work by changing tk to […]

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Hey #Pandoc users, I am trying to convert my old docs Manuscripts to Markdown but every single time I convert doc or Docx to Markdown I keep getting character coding errors such as /‘ and things like can/‘t and I would like to know if there is a command that will clean almost all of that up? So […]

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My new home is @thetextsmith.com. I’m here to advocate for the power of plain text.

I’ll be writing about:

Regex superpowers

Terminal-based workflows

Accounting & data analysis without expensive software

.txt is forever 🐧

#PlainText #Linux #Regex

GitHub - Ambro86/Sonarpad: Modern Notepad in Rust: read PDF/EPUB/DOCX, play MP3 audiobooks, create audiobooks with high-quality TTS, and manage bookmarks. Modern Notepad in Rust: read PDF/EPUB/DOCX, play MP3 audiobooks, create audiobooks with high-quality TTS, and manage bookmarks. - Ambro86/Sonarpad

Trying out a new text editor. Really liking how screen reader friendly it is, but still, no autocorrect/text replacement support. Still, check this out. You can disable spell check, which I have done. https://github.com/Ambro86/Sonarpad #PlainText #OpenSource #TextEditor #Software

✨ New blog post ✨

Film/TV bookmarks (chaos resolved)

xenodium.com/film-tv-book...

#film #movie #movies #tv #tvseries #show #shows #video #videos #plaintext #emacs #orgmode #journelly #ai #llm #claude

Been chaotically bookmarking things to watch (reddit/imdb links, movie names, directors, etc.) to an #emacs #org file via Journelly.

I finally organized it. A little scripting and LLM help gave my first browsable catalog.

Maybe worth a write-up #film #movie #movies #tv #tvseries #shows #plaintext

Questionnaire – Plain Text Aleem Shaun has recently posted his answers to Ellane’s Eight Questions about Plain Text, and they’re a good quick read, as are Ellane’s. I’ve written about plain text before, and even made a zine about it, so I decided to throw my answers in to the mix as well. This may re-tread some of the same ground I’ve gone over in the past, but I feel you might still get something useful out of it, especially if you haven’t read my other plain text stuff before. ## When did you start using plain text? I’ve kind of always used plain text since I was using computers. Some of my first web sites were made using Notepad.exe, and I’ve always used plain text scratch notes. I have a lot of memories from my typing class back in school (when we actually had those), and sometimes they’d throw us a small creative writing assignment at the end, for fun. These were always done in plain text, and it always got my juices flowing, the same way looking at a blank canvas starts making me think of things to draw. ## Why did you start using plain text? I had no money! Also, I remember the transition from Word ’97 to 2000 being kind of painful. It wasn’t even that bad by modern standards, because I didn’t even lose my old files completely–just some of the formatting in them. But we did get endless nag screens about it, and it soured me on proprietary formats and the idea that they could be changed on a whim. ## What do you use plain text for? Scratch notes, documentation, brainstorming, zines, and all sorts of other stuff. I’ve been using Obsidian for work life stuff lately, and it’s basically plain text (markdown, a small step up), so professional stuff too. Occasionally I like drawing little ASCII diagrams and artwork in it too. ## What keeps you using plain text? I work on a lot of different systems on a consistent basis, and locking myself into one of them was never going to work for me. At home, I’m using Linux Mint for desktop stuff, and Ubuntu server for home lab hosting. I have an Android phone that’s already aging, so it’s not going to be using the latest and greatest, and it needs to not only be talking to my other devices, but doing so without slowing down. For work, we’re a Windows office, and that’s not going to change any time soon, whether I like it or not, though we do occasionally use MacOS as well. All that to say, open formats make things SO MUCH EASIER for me. I’m always jotting down ideas, notes, and reminders, and I want to be able to access them wherever and whenever. Plain text is the easiest thing to send across and read, and I rest easy knowing that’s not going to change any time soon. There are, of course, syncing services that will centralize notes and send them around for you, but I do not like being locked into certain ecosystems, and I also do not like paying for things I can do myself. Plain text hasn’t let me down yet. ## Do you use any markup or formatting languages? If so, which ones and why? As mentioned above, I do use markdown format when I need something extra. Mostly it’s for lists, because I am a list-heavy note taker. I also use MediaWiki format, because I have a personal wiki that I use as a “second brain,” and MediaWiki is the engine it runs on. I wish MW would just use markdown, but nobody asked me, so I make it work. ## What are your favourite plain text tools or applications? I’ve hyped up Markor on Android before, and it continues to be my favorite tool for writing and exchanging notes on my phone. It’s simple and open, and does everything I need it to. I lost notes once before when switching phones because I went from one manufacturer to another, but will never suffer again now. Sublime Text is what I prefer to use on desktop, though I sometimes use Notepad++ as well. Both are great programs, though Sublime is probably my favorite. They’re both meant for programming, so they’re probably not what you’d think of when talking about plain text tools, but since I usually have them open for web stuff anyway, they handle plain text just fine, and the search tools are great. ## Is there one tool you can’t do without? Probably Markor, as mentioned above, but even then, if something happened to this app, I’d probably be able to find another one that does something similar. The beauty of working with plain text files is that I _don’t_ really need to be dependent on one tool. There are ones I like, of course, and I have preferences just as with anything else, but in a pinch I’ve used other things and they worked just fine. ## Is there anything you can’t do with plain text? I think of myself as primarily a visual artist, so there is plenty I can’t do with plain text that involves art. As far as text stuff though? I’m not sure, maybe tabular data and database work? But even then there’s CSV for a lot of stuff. I guess the main thing I utilize with notes that doesn’t come built in is linking to other data that I’ve written up and included. I’m not really sure how you’d implement that, to be honest, so for now I just fill that gap with markdown.

Put up a short blog post today answering @ellane 's eight questions about plain text here:

www.thefrugalgamer.net/blog/2026/01/22/questionnaire-plain-text/

#blog #blogger #questionnaire #plaintext #plaintextlife #blogpost #whyplaintext

One Big Text File (OBTF) Christopher Sherrod is a writer, artist, and slow lifestyle advocate. He shares essays, books, and guidance on living a fulfilling life, navigating EMF sensitivity, and doing meaningful work.

I just updated the docs for my One Big Text File (OBTF) journal.
One file.
Plain text.
Chronological.
No apps or productivity theater—just enough structure to let patterns emerge over time. It’s not about doing more. It’s about seeing clearly.
christophersherrod.com/obtf/
#plaintext #journaling

Another lovely Journelly review 💛💙❤️

Available on the App Store as always 😊 apps.apple.com/us/app/journ...

#journelly #ios #swift #swiftui #org #orgmode #markdown #plaintext #privacy #offline #emacs

How Markdown took over the world - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

#Business #Evolutions
How Markdown took over the world · From blog posts to a cornerstone of web technology ilo.im/169prj by Anil Dash

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#Markdown #PlainText #Content #Blog #AI #WebTechnology #DevOps #WebDev #Frontend #Backend

Journelly's latest review ❤️❤️❤️

Available on the App Store as always ;) apps.apple.com/us/app/journ...

#journelly #ios #swift #swiftui #org #orgmode #markdown #plaintext #privacy #offline

Finding My Old Plain Text Files Reminded Me That Visual Simplicity Isn’t Boring, It’s a Relief PTPL 189 · What to do when pretty headers become visual clutter

This week: Finding my old plain text files reminded me that visual simplicity isn't boring—it's relief for a highly distractible brain trying to stay on task. (thread…)

#PTPL #PlainTextPlanner #PlainText #productivity #minimalism

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What software solution do you use to sync text between your PC and mobile devices? #Plaintext .txt, #RichText .rtf, #Markdown .md, anything is fine. My #Syncthing + #Joplin setup continuously fails to sync properly for whatever reason so I'm looking for alternatives. #Logseq works nice for lists […]

Here’s an Elephant to Help You Find “Good Enough” When Everything Feels Too Much On personal manifestos and plain text systems that don’t punish you

This week: one idea and one link to reveal what "good enough" can look like when your mind and your schedule are too full to get everything done. Plain text related, but both can apply to any well-balanced life. Be kind to your elephant!

Click through for blog link:

#ptpl #productivity #PlainText

Journelly 1.3 released: Hello Markdown!

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#plaintext #privacy #orgmode #emacs #vim #swift #swiftui #ios #iphone #journelly #markdown #privacy #offline

Proper support for Format=flowed Proton is particularly bad at supporting plain text email. There’s no support for format=flowed in the interface but, even worse : any mail sent through Proton SMTP will see its format=flowed header removed. This was a bug highly discussed in the Bridge Github ticketing system before it was sent offline. Please allow people to use Proton and the Bridge through plaintext (Mutt, Emacs, Alpine are widely used amongst the privacy geeks crowd)

If you use @protonprivacy Mail to send or receive patches through git-send-mail, you should probably support this request:

protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/284483-proton-mai...

#plaintext #proton #git

The appeal of plain text & Markdown for SRS is clear: it simplifies editing, enables robust version control with Git, and ensures broad compatibility with various editors. This contrasts with database-centric tools, improving collaboration. #PlainText 4/5

Obsidian’s Page Preview vs. the Hover Editor Plugin Plus tips for using Notebook Navigator, from Elizabeth Tai

I’ve used ⌘-hover to preview internal links in #Obsidian for years, but this week I discovered that it also works on tabs. Holding down ⌘ while hovering over the name of a tab gives a 3rd-party-plugin-free, scrollable preview of that page — with clickable links (!)

#ptpl #plainText

Критическая уязвимость в камерах v380: Как plaintext credentials раскрывали миллионы устройств В 2023 году, исследуя безо...

#v380 #уязвимость #IoT #безопасность #IP #камеры #reverse #engineering #plaintext #credentials #Python

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Критическая уязвимость в камерах v380: Как plaintext credentials раскрывали миллионы устройств

Критическая уязвимость в камерах v380: Как plaintext credentials раскрывали миллионы устройств Введение В 2023 году, иссл...

#ethical #hacking #ip #камеры #plaintext #credentials #python #relay #серверы #responsible #disclosure

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My New Task Dashboard Passes the Most Important Test It makes work easier without becoming the work itself

Creative task avoidance can look like productivity. This week I look at how to spot it, and give a sneak peek of my new Obsidian plain text task dashboard — the crafting of which was *totally not* an avoidance mechanism! I hope!!

#productivity #obsidian #plainText

Journelly's first iOS widget is coming

#plaintext #privacy #orgmode #emacs #vim #swift #swiftui #ios #iphone #journelly

Liked: Providing Blog Posts in Plain Text I like this idea by @edent to serve a WordPress website in plain text too. Added to the list of small projects for this blog.