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.
2020 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
2020 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
2020 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
2020 February
- Four Links - February 25, 2020
- Eight Questions for BizDevCon
- Housekeeping - February, 2020
- On Keeping Plain Text Simple
2020 January
- Four Links - January 28, 2020
- Eight Questions For Carl McCabe
- Taking Plain Text Notes Securely with Turtl
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
2019 November
- Four Links - November 26, 2019
- Creating and Using a Plain Text Recap File
- Creating a Folder Structure for Your Plain Text Files
2019 October
- Four Links - October 29, 2019
- Housekeeping - October, 2019
- Eight Questions for Steven Ovadia
- Single or Multiple Text Files?
2019 September
- Four Links - September 24, 2019
- Eight Questions For Hiro Sawane
- Creating Presentation Slides in Plain Text
2019 August
- Four Links - August 27, 2019
- Writing and Publishing a Newsletter (In Plain Text) with Buttondown
- Housekeeping - August, 2019
2019 July
- Four Links - July 29, 2019
- Using Markor to Write (and More) on an Android Device
- Organizing Your Notes in Simplenote with Tags
2019 June
2019 May
- Four Links - May 29, 2019
- Eight Questions For AJ Roddick
- Creating To-Do Lists, Checklists, and Outlines Using Simplenote
2019 April
- Four Links - April 30, 2019
- Blogging in Plain Text with Standard Notes and Listed
- Plain Text and the Power User Fallacy
2019 March
- Four Links - March 26, 2019
- What's the Bare Minimum You Need to Be Productive with Plain Text?
- Taking a Look at Simplenote
2019 February
- Four Links - February 27, 2019
- I've Republished Learning Markdown
- The Plain Text Tools I Use (2019 Edition)
- Organizing Your Information with Joplin
2019 January
- Four Links - January 29, 2019
- Eight Questions For Nathaniel Leveck
- A Quick Look at Blogging in Plain Text with Write.as
2018 December
- Four Links - December 27, 2018
- A Quick Intro to Typesetting in Plain Text with LaTeX
- Eight Questions For Bryan Behrenshausen
2018 November
2018 October
2018 September
2018 August
- Four Links - August 29, 2018
- Eight Questions For David Collins-Rivera
- Don't Shuffle Your Files. Sync Them
2018 July
2018 June
2018 May
- Four Links - May 29, 2018
- Using Atom, From a Non-Techie's Perspective
- Guest Article: Why Plain Text? (A Rant Mostly About Emails)
2018 April
- Eight Questions For Brian Bennett
- Four Links - April 17, 2018
- Announcing 'Eight Questions For ...'
- Four Links - April 9, 2018
2018 March
- Manage Your Tasks Like a Techie with Emacs org-mode
- Four Links - March 7, 2018
- Going Plain Text with Standard Notes