Microsoft is updating Notepad again. The latest indignity for the veteran Windows text wrangler? Text formatting.… Windows used to have an editor with formatting functionality, an application called ...

The Paste is a universally used function of a program and operating system that allows the user to Copy text or image from one location and position it on the other location. Along with this ...

I suppose you already know what Markdown* is. For those who don’t know, let’s quote a few paragraphs from John Gruber’s Daring Fireball: Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers.

Looking back through my old files, I’m amazed to see how many word processors I’ve used over the years. I’ve got document files in formats ranging from MacWrite to Pages and everything in between. The ...

Plain text has long been a favorite here at Lifehacker, but over the years most people have moved away from it in favor of specialized to-do apps, notes apps, writing apps, or whatever else. I still ...

Apple’s Notes app has gotten great in iOS 11 and macOS High Sierra. It’s fast, it’s easy to clip content to new and existing notes, search is instant, and you can collect pretty much anything into a ...