The new Notepad lets you write Markdown without installing anything. It works with plain text, keeps your syntax visible, and ...

Text files don't have bold, italics, header sizes, margin tabs, or anything that might get lost in travel from one word editing tool to another. Text files just have text, and I love them for it.

These text files are saved in Dropbox or some temporary workspace (which I consider to be my alternate directory to the Desktop). Honestly, the best way to get started with plain text before you ...

Plain Text files, on the other hand, use basic formatting and don't always keep a uniform appearance across different platforms. Convert your TXT files into PDFs to ensure that your audience ...

SRT and VTT caption files are relatively simple file formats that are compatible with many commonly used video platforms. 3Play Media has provided detailed information about SRT, VTT, and more complex ...

For many years people have used the free TextEdit app on their Macs to quickly create plain text files. Apple for some reason has never brought this useful program to its mobile devices, so it can ...

The search works on plain text files, binary files (like Word docs), and can even search within zip archives. Windows Grep can also perform a find and replace on the text.

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.

The freeware version is limited, as the name would suggest, to converting PDF files to plain text. You can specify the page range and whether or not to acknowledge page breaks on a file by file basis.