![]() ![]() I’ve got hundreds of them containing everything from some of my favorite latin quotes, (Sit vis nobiscum), to travel plans, to legal forms, to half written posts, and half-baked ideas. ![]() So what do I put in all these fancy text files? Just about anything. Now we can write 1,000 words on our Macs, add 500 more on our PCs, rewrite the introduction on our iPads from a park bench and do the final proofread over a Taco on our phones, all using text. iPad developers largely delivered and the Dropbox API provides the glue to hold it all together. Very quickly after using the iPad, I realized I didn’t need a full blown word processor on my iPad as much as I needed a way to enter, edit, and manipulate text. The watershed event, however, was the iPad. When the Mac development software matured to the point that independent developers could commercially make word processing applications, a lot of us grabbed our life vests and happily abandoned ship from Microsoft Word, looking for software lighter, friendlier, and cheaper. I also adopted the Notational Velocity/Simplenote Tango. This forced me to start thinking about making my words portable. So why this sudden epiphany about text files? For me, there were several revalations on this road starting with me adopting Scrivener a few years ago as my primary word processor. It is really easy to work with your text files on any device from anywhere. The files are small and can jump among connected devices with poor connections like hopped up Disney faeries. Keeping your writings in text makes them digitally immortal. Even more important, text files can be read by humans. Text files are easy to read on any computer running any operating system and don’t require any proprietary word processor to interpret. There’s something to be said for the use of plain text files. ![]()
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