Espresso is a gorgeous Mac-only code editor that’s powerful and smooth, like the caffeinated beverage it’s named after. This ...

Discover how using plain text files with the PARA folder system can simplify note-taking across devices, without the overhead ...

TextPad’s a web app that does just that. TextPad is a plain text editor through and through. You can write, flip over to a dark mode, and save. That’s it.

Another welcome perk is that Calca hides all the non-plain-text documents, which is handy if you’ve ever accidentally tried to open a non-text document using a plain-text editor.

Do you use a plain-text editor? Natalie Houston offers a tip on using the “invert bookmarks” feature to quickly remove unwanted lines of text.

Things could get screwy in Word, or QuarkXPress, or Dreamweaver, but my plain text editor would set things straight.

Ulysses is the first text editor that truly seems built for the iPhone 6. It doesn’t need the big screen to operate—and surely iPhone 5 users won’t regret the purchase—but Ulysses is right ...

These include Markdown-style auto formatting, an interesting text hiding mechanic, Applescript automation, and more. At its core, FoldingText is a pretty straightforward plain text editor.

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 ...