Textor was introduced recently on Apple’s App Store, and the free app has quickly won over many plain text users as a simple way to open nearly any file in place, edit, and save it back to the ...

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.

Requirements The only thing you'll need to create a text file from within Google drive is -- you guessed it -- a Google account. With that at the ready, let's get to work. How to create a new .txt ...

Of course, you could create a plain text to do list any way you like, but if you want some extra bells and whistles, try Todo.txt by Gina Trapani, founder of Lifehacker and co-founder of ThinkUp.

Open up TextEdit, Apple's included text editor, and create a New Document. Once it is open, go to Format in the Menu and select Make Plain Text.

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 ...