Ellane

I almost couldn’t bring myself to read this post. The thought of deleting snapshots of who I used to be is horrific to me, and I didn’t know if I could handle reading about someone else doing it!

Thankfully Justin only deleted his subscription to Day One,; he didn’t delete the actual records it contained.

Yet another case for always keeping the data and words you’d be sad to lose in simple text files.

#plainText #journal #app #futureProof

writingcooperative.com/journal

Journals Aren’t Forever - The Writing Cooperative

Before I started a blog in college, I journaled in…

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Joachim Wiberg

When John Gruber (with Aaron Swartz) created #Markdown in 2004 he solved so many problems for me, some I didn't even know I had at the time. I was deeply invested in #LaTeX (still loving it!) but Markdown really revolutionized the way I do things! With #plaintext being accepted more and more by the "common folk", I could suddenly express myself much easier.

Fast forward to today, I use Markdown *everywhere*! For blogging, READMEs, TODOs, and documenting both small and large projects.

Jochem Kossen

It also made me curious about other text editors which don't require configuration, and don't tempt users to write hundreds of lines of configuration, but still offer powerful functionality.

Any recommendations for open source, opinionated, lightweight, UTF-8 supporting editors that don't break?

#plaintext #editor #programming #plan9

Jochem Kossen

Watched youtube.com/watch?v=dP1xVpMPn8M about the Acme editor.

It seems so inside-out from Emacs, so opinionated and so well thought-out on the other hand. Using text itself as commands / functionality, very interesting.

#plaintext #editor #programming #plan9

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Jul 09, 2025, 07:40 · · · 0 · 0
Hegel

#LibreOffice unterstützt bald Markdown? Nice! Ich mag #Markdown So kann ich #Dokumentationen #plaintext vorbereiten und dann beispielsweise in ein #Confluence importieren. Bald auch in ein Office-Dokument zum Austausch.
heise.de/news/LibreOffice-erha

Ellane

I’m enjoying transcribing the Articles of Faith children’s songs into ABC Music notation. It’s to fit the #French translation to the music, making it easier to memorise the text.

#MuseScore is another option, but I’m not sure it’s needed for this project. ABC is #plainText and thus supremely portable, and can be exported as xml, PDF, or interactive html for playing in a browser.

The EasyABC app is great, and a better experience than the (still convenient) #Obsidian plugin.

Jun 27, 2025, 19:22 · · · 0 · 0
Andrew Leland

Before that I was jamming with a #plaintext workflow using markdown, coteditor + terminal.app (zsh) + #pandoc after getting red-pilled by @patric. (2/8)

Tim Chase

@winterschon For other favorites:

Calendar: I love remind(1), a CLI calendar that is more powerful than any other calendar I've ever used. It's a little rough sharing events externally or importing external events (I see you CalDAV note), but for our household, it's great, and I wrote up a detailed blog post² on how I use it (it's a little out of date now, but still works).

Finances: I track mine in ledger(1), largely compatible with hledger(1). There's also BeanCount with its web UI, Fava, but I'm less familiar with that. I'm wary of handing all our household financial data over to some 3rd party, but I do want insights into our spending, saving, etc, so #plaintextaccounting is handy for that

Todos: some folks prefer TaskWarrior³ which is the 900lb gorillia in the CLI todo-tracking game, but I prefer simple todo.txt-style⁴ todo lists, and I symlink my todo.txt file to my ~/.plan so I can use finger(1) to get my todo list remotely.

They all have the advantage of storing all their data in #plaintext, meaning I can track it in git and sync it around between machines.

That said, I know CLI apps aren't everybody's cup of tea, but they fit my brain and I like keeping everything local. And they're all light on resources, so even the wimpiest RPi runs them fine.

¹ dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remin
² blog.thechases.com/posts/remin
³ taskwarrior.org/
github.com/todotxt/todo.txt-cl

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Joel :casio: :blobcatderpy:

New #blogpost!

I Used To Take Notes...

From #GoogleKeep to #Joplin to Doom #Emacs to #PlainText files to pretty much nothing

This is day 84 of #100DaysToOffload

joelchrono.xyz/blog/i-used-to-

#blogging #notetaking #blog

Jun 20, 2025, 02:01 · · · 4 · 0
Álvaro R.

#Journelly v1.2 is out! This release focuses exclusively on improving accessibility.

Huge thanks to @Yvonnezed for all her help shaping this release!

xenodium.com/journelly-1-2-rel

#plaintext #privacy #orgmode #emacs #vim #swift #swiftui #ios #iphone #journelly

Jun 12, 2025, 09:36 · · · 2 · 0
Álvaro R.

I've been making some progress in bringing #Markdown support to journelly.com

I'll soon have the first builds with #Markdown support available via the beta group.

Interested in joining the TestFlight beta? Reach out (details at journelly.com)

#plaintext #privacy #orgmode #emacs #vim #swift #swiftui #ios #iphone #journelly

Jun 11, 2025, 19:04 · · · 1 · 0
scy

Are people even using something else than YAML front matter in their Markdown (or whatever) files?

Apparently there are SSGs that support HTML <meta> tag front matter, and if you're using ReStructured Text it probably does its own thing. And I bet there's at least one person on the planet building their website from ASN.1 files.

What are _you_ using?

#WebDev #SSG #YAML #Markdown #FrontMatter #PlainText #StaticSite #StaticWebsite