Kleopatra is the GnuPG front-end program for Windows as a part of Gpg4win. And it's driving me nuts. The Linux program has a simple clipboard, and this makes sense to me. You have text to encrypt, or ...

Most proprietary note-taking apps try to solve every single problem and therefore keep adding more features. Each one has databases, block systems, AI assistants, dashboards, all of it. On paper, it ...

If there’s one thing that unites ProfHacker writers, it’s probably an appreciation for plain text files and well-designed text editors, preferably with Markdown support. Plain text goes anywhere, is ...

OS X: Plain text is plain text, but if it has an unusual file extension that the Finder doesn't understand then it'll assume it's something else. This is particularly problematic with QuickLook, the ...

Plain text file lovers, rejoice: web-based text editor MyTextFile offers plenty of space to store your notes and lists plus a revision history of the file in question. Sign into MyTextFile with your ...

Looking back through my old files, I’m amazed to see how many word processors I’ve used over the years. I’ve got document files in formats ranging from MacWrite to Pages and everything in between. The ...

Folding Text is a Mac app from Hog Bay Software’s Jesse Grosjean, and it’s kind of like a cross between a text editor and a terminal. It’s a beta, or maybe even an alpha, but the latest release is ...

Microsoft Excel is getting two new functions for importing data from other files, without the need to use Power Query or ...

Apple’s Notes app has gotten great in iOS 11 and macOS High Sierra. It’s fast, it’s easy to clip content to new and existing notes, search is instant, and you can collect pretty much anything into a ...

Word.docs look terrible as plain-text files if you just change the extension. Follow these steps to ensure your formatting meets best practices no matter what version you’re using. If you’ve spent ...

Although modern word processing programs can do some amazing things—adding charts, tables, and images, applying sophisticated formatting—there’s one thing they can’t do: Guarantee that the words I ...