Text, Text, Text - The past, present and future of writing (and publishing).
A collection of awesome .TXT / Text tools, formats, services, tips & tricks and more.
Journal.TXT - single-text file journals - the human multi-document format for writers
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day: Wed 19
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Let's reinvent push-button publishing on the internets!
Use a single-file for your journal / diary / blog. That's it.
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day: Thu 20
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Crazy idea? Let's put up a website and a example blog auto-generated from journal.txt.
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day: Fri 21
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Did you know? The single-file format works great for advent calendars
or beer-of-the-day calendars.
Todo.TXT by Gina Trapani et al -- future-proof task tracking in a file you control; if you want to get it done, first write it down.
(A) Call Mom @Phone +Family
(A) Schedule annual checkup +Health
(B) Outline chapter 5 +Novel @Computer
(C) Add cover sheets @Office +TPSReports
Plan backyard herb garden @Home
Pick up milk @GroceryStore
Research self-publishing services +Novel @Computer
x Download Todo.txt mobile app @Phone
Feed.TXT - free web feeds format in (plain) text w/ structured meta data
|>>>
title: My Example Feed
home_page_url: https://example.org/
feed_url: https://example.org/feed.txt
</>
id: 2
url: https://example.org/second-item
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This is a second item.
</>
id: 1
url: https://example.org/initial-post
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Hello, world!
<<<|
Manuscripts - free book format - write books in (plain) text
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title: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
year: 1886
author:
name: Robert Louis Stevenson
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=Story of the Door=
Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance, that was
never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in
discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary, and
yet somehow lovable. At friendly meetings, and when the wine was to
his taste, something eminently human beaconed from his eye;
something indeed which never found its way into his talk, but which
spoke not only in these silent symbols of the after-dinner face, but
more often and loudly in the acts of his life...
Bib.TXT - free bibliographies in text (unicode) format - BibTeX for the 21st century - books, articles, & more
[Fau86]
author: J.W. Goethe
title: Faust. Der Tragödie Erster Teil
publisher: Reclam
year: 1986
address: Stuttgart
Ledger - double-entry bookkeeping / accounting in (plain) text; follow your money
2016/1/1 set opening balance
assets:checking $500.00
equity:opening balances
2016/1/5 farmer's market
expenses:groceries $50.00
assets:checking
Structured documents in text with formatting conventions
Markdown -- see Awesome Markdown
- Kramdown -- see Awesome Kramdown
Wikipedia Markup / Wiki Text
DokuWiki Markup
Text with Instruction (.texti) - structured documents in text with formatting conventions; the best of markdown, wikipedia markup, latex & Friends - all together now
AsciiDoc by Stuart Rackham et al
Rimu Markup by Stuart Rackham et al
reStructured Text (.rst)
Org /Org mode (Ecmacs) -- your life in (plain) text; keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, planning projects, and writing documents in fast and effective (plain) text
Values, records, hierarchies (trees), types & more
CSV (Comma-Separated Values) -- see Awesome CSV
YAML (YAML Ain't Markup Language) -- see Awesome YAML
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) -- see Awesome JSON (What's Next?)
TOML (Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language) by Tom Preston-Werner et al
Markdown Configuration (.mdconf) by TJ Holowaychuk et al
Plain Text Project by Scott Nesbitt et al
Plain Text Accounting by Simon Michael et al
Mundi Mark - all about markup & markdown
License
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