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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.
A free, open-source DOCX editor that runs entirely in the browser. It opens, edits and saves .docx files with formatting, tracked changes, comments, tables and images, without sign-up or server upload. React and Vue versions are also mentioned.
ExcelJet provides Excel formula examples with step-by-step explanations, many including video. It covers functions such as VLOOKUP, XLOOKUP, FILTER, COUNTIFS, SUMIFS, SORT and TEXTSPLIT, and offers a downloadable set of important Excel functions.
Magic ToDo is a browser-based tool from Goblin Tools that breaks tasks into smaller steps. The page offers saving to and loading from a saved file, copying to the clipboard, printing, and exporting in several formats, including iCal tasks and events, Markdown, and Todoist. It also exports to Asana, Notion, Amazing Marvin and TickTick. A mobile app is mentioned.
MindMapp helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
NimbleText Live is a text-processing page that trims each field and treats consecutive delimiters as one. It sets an output line separator after each row, ignores empty rows, and allows column and row delimiters to be treated as regular expressions.
Obsidian Canvas provides an infinite space for researching, brainstorming, diagramming and laying out ideas. Canvas files are stored locally in the open JSON Canvas file format, and the API supports plugins that add capabilities. Notes, images, PDFs, video, audio and web pages can be embedded, and canvases can be nested. Canvas comes free with Obsidian.
RoySAC.com is a personal site by Carsten, also known as Roy/SAC, a text artist. It hosts ASCII and ANSI art galleries, artpacks, TheDraw ANSI fonts, tutorials, articles on the underground computer art scene, and oldskool scene and BBS merchandise. The sitemap page lists links to major sections and pages.
Typst is a document system developed in the open with a community, where the compiler is open source. Content is written as markup focused on structure, with formatting done automatically, and documents can be exported as a PDF, image, or website in preview. It supports visualizations, mathematics, plots, tables, code, bibliographies, and slides.
xTiles is a productivity tool designed to help users organize daily work and plans. It includes AI-powered workflow support, ready-to-use templates, community resources, and built-in tools for tasks, daily briefings, email management, and weekly reviews.
ASCII Blaster helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
ASCII Sketch is a web page for producing ASCII text art. It provides canvases, text with alignment, font and border controls, fill and border characters, line and pencil tools, and drawing export, save and load options.
Asciiblaster helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
A guide for performing a customized Office install using the Office Deployment Tool, with a configuration file exported from config.office.com and commands run in an elevated Command Prompt. It notes that the official method uses neither an ISO nor a one-click solution, and mentions an advanced alternative method, YAOCTRI.
Domino is a tool for collaging thoughts, presenting a spatial arrangement of cards that can form an essay, mind map, or collage. Users click and drag to navigate the board, double-click cards to jump to them, and can edit content by toggling unlocked mode.
EncryptPad is an application for viewing and editing symmetrically encrypted text and for encrypting and decrypting binary files. It uses the OpenPGP format and focuses on symmetric encryption, offering both graphical and command line interfaces.
Excel Macro Mastery hosts a collection of VBA articles for Microsoft Excel. The articles cover topics such as loops, arrays, ranges, subroutines, error handling, user forms, dictionaries, and string functions, presented as complete guides for beginners and other VBA users.
Gnumeric is an open-source spreadsheet program. The project states that it starts up quickly and handles large spreadsheets while remaining responsive. Its source code is available under the GNU General Public License version 2 or version 3. The site also lists release notes and resources such as a user's manual and mailing list.
A directory page listing public instances of CryptPad, an open-source collaborative editing service that anyone can install. The page lists instances open to the public, including the flagship CryptPad.fr hosted by the development team, and notes that third-party instances passed checks for up-to-date versions and recommended security and privacy settings.
Playscii is an open-source ASCII art, animation, and game creation tool by JP LeBreton for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It requires an OpenGL 2.1-capable video card with GLSL 1.30 support and is offered as a free download. The developer notes that the macOS build is 32-bit and not notarized.
REXPaint is an ASCII art editor from Grid Sage Games for creating ANSI block and line art, roguelike mockups and maps, and UI layouts. It offers separate editing of characters, foreground, and background colors, shape and text tools, layers, palette manipulation, a true-color picker, custom fonts and tilesets, and export to PNG and other formats. It is Windows-only and was originally an in-house development tool.
SciTE is a SCIntilla-based text editor for source code. Originally built to demonstrate the Scintilla editing component, it has grown into a generally useful editor with facilities for building and running programs. It is available for Intel Windows 7 or later and Linux systems with GTK.
TreeSheets is a free and open source hierarchical spreadsheet for organizing complex data. Described as a replacement for spreadsheets, mind mappers, outliners, text editors and small databases, it is intended for uses such as todo lists, calendars, project management and brainstorming. It can run in the system tray with several documents loaded.
Kammerl is an ASCII text and signature generator that functions as a Figlet frontend. It allows users to generate ASCII text signatures, with support for adjusting font and design parameters via advanced customization options. Users can copy and paste the generated ASCII output for external use.
Encrypted collaboration suite for documents, spreadsheets, forms, kanban boards, and shared notes.
