Tools
This is a curated list of tools that can help you work and live more efficiently in plain text. Note that this page isn’t meant to be a comprehensive or definitive set of links.
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Note Taking Tools
- Turtl (Linux, MacOS, Android, Windows)
- Standard Notes (Linux, MacOS, Android, iOS, Web, Windows)
- nvALT (MacOS)
- Notational Velocity (MacOS)
- Tomboy-ng (Linux, MacOS, Windows)
- Joplin (Linux, MacOS, Windows, Android, iOS)
Mobile Apps
- iA Writer (Android, iOS; also version for Windows and MacOS)
- Writer+ (Android)
- Orgzly (Android)
- beOrg (iOS)
- neutriNote CE (Android)
Web Apps
Desktop Wikis
- TiddlyWiki
- Feather Wiki
- Zim (Linux, Windows)
- WikidPad (Linux, MacOS, Windows)
Other Tools
- Journal.TXT
- If you do this and only this, today will be a good day
- Plain Text Life
- FromScratch
- EverOrg (Linux, MacOS, Windows)
- ledger (Linux, BSD, MacOS, Windows)
- Bunch (MacOS)
- tinyapps.org / text (multiple operating systems)
- Markwhen