Articles
Want to learn more about using plain text in your daily or work life? Check back here every couple of weeks for a new article. Or, read what I've already published.
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2022
September
August
- Four Links - August 30, 2022
- Taking a Look at Some Plain Text Myths
- Keeping a Plain Text Journal with jrnl
July
June
- Four Links - June 29, 2022
- 3 More Fonts for Working with Plain Text
- Creating a Plain Text Day Planner
May
April
- Four Links - April 28, 2022
- Blogging in Plain Text with Bear
- Creating a Nice-Looking PDF with pandoc
March
February
- Four Links - February 23, 2022
- Taking Plain Text Notes with Nextcloud Notes
- Thoughts About Using Obsidian
January
2021
December
- Four Links - December 28, 2021
- A Few Thoughts About Effectively Taking Notes with Plain Text
- Choosing a Text Editor
November
- Four Links - November 25, 2021
- Tools Roundup - November 17, 2021
- Blogging in Plain Text with Mataroa
October
September
August
July
June
May
April
March
- Four Links - March 30, 2021
- Eight CSS Files to Style Your Web Pages and Documents
- Eight Questions for Donald Brown
- Plain Text as a Force Multiplier
February
- Four Links - February 25, 2021
- The Plain Text Tools I Use (2021 Edition)
- 4 Markdown Utilities for the Linux Command Line
January
2020
December
November
October
September
- Four Links - September 29, 2020
- Announcing the Publication of Learning HTML
- Eight Questions for Melyanna
- Organizing Your Information with Zim Desktop Wiki
August
- Four Links - August 25, 2020
- Why Isn’t the Plain Text Project in Plain Text?
- Spell Checking Your Plain Text Files
July
- Four Links - July 28, 2020
- Marking an Anniversary
- Managing your Writing in Plain Text with Simplenote
June
- Four Links - June 24, 2020
- Some Changes in These Parts
- Working with a Plain Text Scratchpad
- Housekeeping - June, 2020
May
- Four Links - May 26, 2020
- Announcing the Second Edition of Learning Markdown
- Plain Text and the Technical Communicator
- Eight Questions For William Hern
April
- Four Links - April 28, 2020
- Creating a Plain Text Career Management Document
- Structuring and Formatting Your Plain Text Files (Without a Markup Language)
- Eight Questions for Russ Sharek
March
- Four Links - March 24, 2020
- Eight Questions for Rodrigo Camacho
- Writing in Markdown with Typora
- 4 More Fonts to Help You Go Beyond Courier
February
- Four Links - February 25, 2020
- Eight Questions for BizDevCon
- Housekeeping - February, 2020
- On Keeping Plain Text Simple
January
2019
December
- Four Links - December 31, 2019
- Guest Article: Managing Recipes With Plain Text
- Working with Templates
- Housekeeping - December, 2019
- Eight Questions For Devin Prater
November
- Four Links - November 26, 2019
- Creating and Using a Plain Text Recap File
- Creating a Folder Structure for Your Plain Text Files
October
- Four Links - October 29, 2019
- Housekeeping - October, 2019
- Eight Questions for Steven Ovadia
- Single or Multiple Text Files?
September
- Four Links - September 24, 2019
- Eight Questions For Hiro Sawane
- Creating Presentation Slides in Plain Text
August
- Four Links - August 27, 2019
- Writing and Publishing a Newsletter (In Plain Text) with Buttondown
- Housekeeping - August, 2019
July
- Four Links - July 29, 2019
- Using Markor to Write (and More) on an Android Device
- Organizing Your Notes in Simplenote with Tags
June
May
- Four Links - May 29, 2019
- Eight Questions For AJ Roddick
- Creating To-Do Lists, Checklists, and Outlines Using Simplenote
April
- Four Links - April 30, 2019
- Blogging in Plain Text with Standard Notes and Listed
- Plain Text and the Power User Fallacy
March
- Four Links - March 26, 2019
- What's the Bare Minimum You Need to Be Productive with Plain Text?
- Taking a Look at Simplenote
February
- Four Links - February 27, 2019
- I've Republished Learning Markdown
- The Plain Text Tools I Use (2019 Edition)
- Organizing Your Information with Joplin
January
2018
December
- Four Links - December 27, 2018
- A Quick Intro to Typesetting in Plain Text with LaTeX
- Eight Questions For Bryan Behrenshausen
November
October
September
August
- Four Links - August 29, 2018
- Eight Questions For David Collins-Rivera
- Don't Shuffle Your Files. Sync Them
July
June
May
- Four Links - May 29, 2018
- Using Atom, From a Non-Techie's Perspective
- Guest Article: Why Plain Text? (A Rant Mostly About Emails)
April
- Eight Questions For Brian Bennett
- Four Links - April 17, 2018
- Announcing 'Eight Questions For ...'
- Four Links - April 9, 2018
March
- Manage Your Tasks Like a Techie with Emacs org-mode
- Four Links - March 7, 2018
- Going Plain Text with Standard Notes