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Text editors and formatting tools cover software for writing, editing, and cleaning up plain text and documents. Listings include code editors used for prose, collaborative documents, Markdown tools, and converters between file formats. The formats they read and write matter, along with whether they work offline and how they handle a long document with links, tables, and footnotes. Check where a service stores your files and whether you can export them cleanly before you move a project into it. Some tools handle one task, such as tidying Markdown or converting a document, without the setup of a general editor.
Shrib is an online notepad for taking notes in a browser. The page states that note-taking is available as "Free and no login" or with an AI assistant, visitor stats, privacy and productivity features. It offers publishing and markdown. Javascript and cookies need to be enabled. Notes can also be accessed through the online-note domain.
Slatebox creates visuals from a prompt, including infographics, mind maps, timelines, pitch decks and dynamic presentations. Slates are fully editable and can be presented with one click on an infinite canvas with multi-cursor collaboration. A PDF can be transformed into a presentation, and templates are available. Pricing during the beta includes a Forever Free plan and paid Solo-Pro and Team-Pro plans billed annually.
Socket.IO is a library that enables real-time, bidirectional and event-based communication between the browser and the server. It consists of a Node.js server and a JavaScript client library, with additional community-maintained client implementations in other languages. The client establishes a WebSocket connection when possible and falls back on HTTP long polling. The library offers auto-reconnection support and can send events to all connected clients across multiple servers.
ssavr helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
Structifi is an AI-powered tool designed for optical character recognition (OCR) and structured data extraction. It converts content from files including PDFs and images into actionable structured data, supporting use cases such as extracting sales leads, contacts, exam papers, and catalog information. The tool can also convert files to text, Excel, and other structured data formats.
Super Productivity is a free, open-source, privacy-first task manager with built-in time tracking, timeboxing, and focus mode. It works offline with no account required and is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, and web. Tasks stay on the device by default, with optional sync via Super Sync, WebDAV, or Dropbox, and integrations for GitHub, GitLab, and Jira. All features and platforms are free forever.
Superlist is a task management and to-do list app for tasks, notes, and projects. It offers AI that turns voice recordings into action items and summarizes meeting notes. It supports tasks, subtasks, lists, and sharing, and runs on Mac, Web, iOS, and Android. It is free to start.
Tad is a free, cross-platform desktop application for viewing and analyzing tabular data files. It views CSV and Parquet files and SQLite and DuckDB databases, supports large files, and includes a pivot table. It uses DuckDB internally and is aimed at data engineers and data scientists. Installers are available for macOS, Linux, and Windows.
Taskade is a business productivity platform that enables users to build and run custom applications including CRMs, dashboards, and client portals using AI agents and automated workflows via its Taskade Genesis feature. It supports integration with over 100 apps, offers pre-built templates, and is available as a web, mobile, and desktop application.
Taskwarrior is free and open source software that manages a TODO list from the command line. It is described as flexible, fast and unobtrusive. The project offers documentation, man pages and a hook script API, and imports and exports JSON.
TEXT-IMAGE.com generates text-images and ASCII art from pictures on a user's device. The converter accepts JPG, PNG, GIF, WEBP and BMP files and lets users choose the characters, their random or sequential order, image width and font size. The resulting HTML representation can be shared via a public link stored for five days.
TextPaint is an online tool for drawing with text. Users draw, shape and decorate a canvas using ASCII, Unicode, emojis or other characters. The sidebar offers a pencil, paint bucket, text input, select area, character picker, find and replace, line drawing and image-to-ASCII conversion. Artwork can be flipped, rotated, shifted and exported as a text file, HTML or a JavaScript string. It is free and requires no signup.
TextSlave is a free online text transformation tool. It allows users to split, merge, duplicate, remove, replace, add, edit, sort, and convert text, including using conditional expressions. It offers functions for newline handling, whitespace and tab adjustment, word wrapping, and other text editing operations.
TickTick is an all-in-one productivity application that lets users manage tasks, view calendars across multiple layouts, track time with Pomodoro intervals, monitor habits, and count down to important dates. It syncs across devices and offers AI-powered features to help with organization.
TinyList helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
todoZero is a to-do and notes application with a distraction-free interface, shortcuts and alerts and reminders. It offers a public API and Zapier integration. The free plan includes unlimited to-dos and notes, 2 devices and 1 GB image storage; the Plus plan costs $4 per month and adds unlimited devices and 10 GB storage.
Vertex42 provides professionally designed spreadsheet templates, calculators and calendars for business, home and educational use, including templates for Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets and OpenOffice.org. It also offers Microsoft Word templates and Excel tutorials for beginners.
Vikunja is an open-source, self-hostable task management application. It provides list, Kanban, Gantt and table views for organizing tasks and projects, and projects can be shared with other users or teams. It is licensed under the AGPLv3 and can be self-hosted or run through the hosted Vikunja Cloud option.
VisiData is an interactive command-line multitool for tabular data that combines a spreadsheet-like view with the terminal and Python. It opens many formats, including CSV, TSV, JSON, Excel, SQLite, and HDF5. The site describes handling millions of rows, instant histograms, terminal scatterplots, saved sessions for replay, and batch data pipelines.
Whimsical helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
Write Box helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
YearCompass is a free booklet designed to help users reflect on the past year and plan the upcoming one. It includes guided questions and exercises to help users identify personal patterns and set goals, and is available in a wide range of languages. It has been used by more than a million people worldwide since its launch in 2012.
Yuque helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
Nanotype is described as a free online text editor that is minimal and private, supporting plain text and Markdown. Text stays in the browser, it works offline, and a share link carries the text inside itself.
