In: writing.
Also: note-taking.

Plain text

Because it’s the only way.

Links

Awesome lists

A Plain Defense For Plain Text Blog

https://plaintext.bearblog.dev/a-plain-defense-for-plain-text

Why Keep It Simple With Plain Text?
https://plaintext.bearblog.dev/why-keep-it-simple-with-plain-text

Plaintext World

https://plaintextworld.com
Quality lo-fi sites for an internet that doesn’t suck

The Plain Text Project

https://plaintextproject.online
Plain text tools:
https://plaintextproject.online/tools.html

The Plaintext Productivity

https://plaintext-productivity.net
The Plaintext Productivity system is a smart way to get organized on Windows, using plaintext files as your trusted system and great software to make it easy.

Why Plaintext for Notes?
https://plaintext-productivity.net/2-01-why-plaintext-for-notes.html

Free Online Tools – Text Fixer Web Tools

https://textfixer.com
You can, for example, use the online sentence counter, convert text to HTML paragraphs, alphabetize text, or remove line breaks from the incorrectly formatted text. You can do fun things like generate random words, reverse text, or repeat text.

Plain text table generator

https://tablesgenerator.com/text_tables
Text, Markdown, LaTeX, HTML tables

Todo.txt

http://todotxt.org
If you want to get it done, first write it down.
If you have a file called todo.txt on your computer right now, you’re in the right place.

Notational Velocity

https://notational.net
An application that stores and retrieves notes.
It is an attempt to loosen the mental blockages to recording information and to scrape away the tartar of convention that handicaps its retrieval. The solution is by nature nonconformist.
Notational Velocity is a way to take notes quickly and effortlessly using just your keyboard. You press a shortcut to bring up the window and just start typing. It will begin searching existing notes, filtering them as you type.

nvALT

https://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt
A fork of the original Notational Velocity with some additional features and interface modifications, including MultiMarkdown functionality. It has been developed by Elastic Threads (David Halter) and Brett Terpstra, and made available for free (donations accepted).

Plain text journaling

https://herman.bearblog.dev/plain-text-journaling
There are a few benefits I’ve found to using a simple txt file:

Plain Text Accounting (PTA)

https://plaintextaccounting.org

Jrnl

https://jrnl.sh
Collect your thoughts and notes without leaving the command line.
jrnl has a natural-language interface so you don’t have to remember cryptic shortcuts when you’re writing down your thoughts.
Your journals are stored in plain-text files that will still be readable in 50 years when your fancy proprietary apps will have gone the way of the dodo.
Encrypt your journals with industry-strength AES encryption. Nobody will be able to read your dirty secrets—not even you, if you lose your password!

File over app

https://stephango.com/file-over-app
File over app is a philosophy: if you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you this freedom.

If you want your writing to still be readable on a computer from the 2060s or 2160s, it’s important that your notes can be read on a computer from the 1960s.

The lo-fi manifesto

https://kairos.technorhetoric.net/20.2/inventio/stolley
IN PRAISE OF PLAINTEXT.

Journal.TXT - Single-Text File Journals

The Human Multi-Document Format for Writers
https://journaltxt.github.io

Example template:

---
year:  2017
month: July
day:   Wed 19
---
Let's reinvent push-button publishing on the internets!
Use a single-file for your journal / diary / blog. That's it.
---
day:   Thu 20
---
Crazy idea? Let's put up a website and a example blog auto-generated from journal.txt.
---
day:   Fri 21
---
Did you know? The single-file format works great for advent calendars
or beer-of-the-day calendars.
---
day:    Sat 22
---
Let's add another example. A diary about the Oktoberfest 2016. Prost. Cheers.
---
day:    Sun 23
---
Let's rest.

Plain text life

https://github.com/jukil/plain-text-life

  1. Create a folder Life somewhere on your computer (you can also place this folder in a cloud folder, like Google Drive or Dropbox, to have it synced across devices).
  2. Each day in the morning, after having set your coffee but before having done any serious work, create a copy of today.txt and use today’s date as the filename like this: 2015-08-23.txt. This structure stands for YYYY-MM-DD.txt and follows the ISO 8601 standard.
  3. Start writing by filling in blanks of the template.
  4. Whenever you feel like, add your thoughts to the file using the syntax below and hit save when you are done.

Example template:

# Heading

## Sub-heading

- list item

todo: to mark a line as a todo for today

done: to mark a line as done for today

thought: to mark a line as a thought of today

experience: to mark a line as an experience of today

reflection: to mark a line as a reflection of today

idea: to mark a line as an idea of today

feeling: to mark a line as a feeling of today

note: to mark a line as a useful information to remember of today

@context to indicate the context of a line

+project to indicate the project to which a line belongs to

(A) (B) (C) to indicate the priority of a line
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