Roll up roll up roll up folks, and get ready for the Nerd-o-Rama. In today’s edition we bring you Calca, a “text editor for engineers.” Imagine that somebody took Soulver and Markdown and left them ...

As a Web developer and project manager, I maintain lots of notes that I edit, not only on my Mac, but also on my iPhone and iPad. I prefer to keep my notes in plain text format partly for ...

Sometimes, you just need to jot something down quickly without fumbling around opening up an application. TextPad’s a web app that does just that. TextPad is a plain text editor through and through.

Now you might think that the world already has enough plain text editors, but those of us who spend all day writing will always disagree. Writer is a new text editor on the Mac App Store. It’s similar ...

OS X: Plain text editors tend to cost a lot when they help you write better code, and TextMate (our favorite) is far from an exception. Textastic, on the other hand, offers a very similar feature set ...

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 ...

While Linux isn't strictly a text-only system, it has a reputation for making better use of plain text than any other operating system. While many tools cater to programmers, writers, and authors can ...

Most proprietary note-taking apps try to solve every single problem and therefore keep adding more features. Each one has ...

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 ...

Even back when the only way to write on the iPhone was on a skeuomorphic notepad, it was clear that Apple’s revolutionary handset was a productivity dynamo. Marker Felt aside, and after just a few ...