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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.
Zettlr is a Markdown editor described as a publication workbench for researchers, journalists and writers. It offers first-class citation support, project support and full Zettelkasten/PKMS support. Export formats are any Pandoc-supported formats (30+).
Zim is a graphical text editor used to maintain a collection of wiki pages, inspired by how people use wikis. Pages can contain links, simple formatting and images, are stored in a folder structure and can have attachments. All data is stored in plain text files with wiki formatting.
ZippyJot helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
Excel Functions helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
Fastedit is a lightweight Windows text editor built with WinUI3 and C#. It offers tabbed editing, syntax highlighting, line numbers, session snapshots and undockable windows. The project is described as 100% free and open source.
Love ASCII is a collection of ASCII art drawings covering themes such as hearts, hugs, flowers and weddings. The site states the collection was assembled in the late 90s for another website and is now given its own site. Artists are credited where known.
Markdown Monster is a Markdown editor for Windows with syntax highlighting and a collapsible, synced live preview. It supports pasting images, embedding links and tables, spell-checking, and exporting Markdown to PDF or HTML. A .NET addin model allows extensions, and its weblog publishing feature supports WordPress, MetaWeblog, Jekyll and Medium.
Markdown Editor Online is a browser-based tool for writing Markdown with a real-time preview pane. It supports LaTeX math, Mermaid diagrams, GitHub-flavored Markdown, tables and code highlighting, and allows exporting to PDF, Word or HTML without login. Drafts autosave in the browser, and existing .md files can be uploaded for editing.
MemOnNotepad helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several programming languages. It runs in the MS Windows environment, is governed by the GNU General Public License, is written in C++, and is based on the Scintilla editing component.
Notepads helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
Office365Version helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
Online Notepad provides browser-based note and productivity tools, including a notepad, Cornell notes, sticky notes, a word counter, and a kanban board. The tools require no sign-up or download and save data locally.
Package Control is the package manager for Sublime Text. It is described as making it exceedingly simple to find, install and keep packages up-to-date. The documentation covers usage, settings, syncing packages and settings across machines, submitting and renaming packages, dependencies, events, and creating package files.
Quadratic is an AI-powered spreadsheet that connects to various data sources and provides fast, explainable insights. Users can ask questions in plain English and the AI generates formulas, code, and charts. It supports connections to CSVs, Excel, PDFs, and databases like Postgres and Google Analytics. The platform is used by over 250,000 people at companies and universities.
Sublime Text is a text editor for code, markup and prose, available on Mac, Windows and Linux. Version 4 adds GPU rendering, Apple Silicon and Linux ARM64 support, Tab Multi-Select, context-aware auto complete, and TypeScript, JSX and TSX support. Linux package repositories are provided for apt, pacman, yum, dnf and zypper.
Tangent is an open source notes application for Mac, Windows, and Linux. It stores notes as markdown files on the device and links notes using wiki-style double bracket links. A Thread View shows sliding panels along the path of links, and a Map View shows nodes and connections created as a user writes. The app supports Markdown styling, tags, to-do items, embedded media, and a query language.
A collection of free, editable templates for Google Docs, Slides and Sheets, covering documents such as calendars, resumes, letters and invitations. Templates can be opened and edited in Google Docs or Google Sheets, then printed or shared, and can also be downloaded for editing in Microsoft Word or macOS Pages.
ToDo List helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
Vrite is an open-source, collaborative developer content platform for documentation, technical blogs, and knowledge bases. It includes a technical content editor with code editing, Markdown, and keyboard shortcuts, and can be self-hosted or used through a cloud service. It offers a headless API, JavaScript SDK, content variants, metadata, Git sync, and AI-powered semantic search. Paid plans begin with a 14-day free trial.
Web helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
Ziziyi is a browser-based office editor for opening, viewing and editing DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files. It states that no upload or login is required and that documents stay private, and files can be dragged and dropped or selected through a browser extension.
AnsiLove/C is a tool that converts ANSI and artscene-related file formats into PNG images, supporting ANSI, PCBoard, Binary, ADF, IDF, Tundra and XBin formats. Related releases include libansilove, a conversion library, and AnsiLove.js, a JavaScript port. Packages are available for several BSD systems, Linux distributions and Homebrew. Ansilove/PHP is deprecated.
ascii.co helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
