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For apple instal FSNotes1/8/2024 ![]() ![]() This app is the reason behind this article: it is so good that it made me question my TextEdit/uFocus-only setup, and made me wonder if I was not missing something by not using such a fantastic Markdown app. The Archive: This is a really excellent little app that I discovered last weekend. A beautiful, fast, and very capable truck, but a bike is what I need in this metaphor. This can be used as a complement to TextEdit, but it feels wrong to use such a powerful and fully-featured app just to type one new post per week, it’s like going to the bakery around the block by driving a truck. Library-based appsĭrafts: possibly my favourite app of the list, but because it can’t be used to edit existing file (it works with its own library), it is not as useful as it could be for me, and working with “bookmarks” feels a bit convoluted. Apple should embrace this and add some plain text features like syntax highlighting in a variety of languages including Markdown, a line-height setting, a character/word count, the ability to add line numbers, etc. To put it simply, CotEditor is what I believe TextEdit should be in 2022 some people may use it for rich text, but I am convinced that 90% of TextEdit’s users use it for plain text. The fact that I don’t like uFocus icon doesn’t help, but compared to the others of this list, this app feels less polished somehow.ĬotEditor: The newest of the bunch for me and what a revelation. But if I had to commit to only one app between uFocus or TextEdit, I may switch back to TextEdit. It is so good that I am actually writing this post on uFocus. UFocus: I consider this app to be “iA Writer Lite.” It kinda looks the same, but feels much faster and with less features. Sadly, iA Writer is not an app like this on my pre-M1 MacBook Air. I like apps that are snappy, that respond instantly to each keystroke. So what is wrong with it? Well, it feels heavy. I used this impeccably-designed app for years, between the early 2010s and 2020. I will call them the “library-based” apps: apps that can’t quickly edit exiting files in the finder, but are great for taking quick notes - apps like Apple Notes for instance. I’ll called these “file-based” apps: not the best for taking quick notes, but able to quickly edit any file on your computer, apps like TextEdit.Īpps that can be used on top or next to TextEdit are in the second category. The first category reunites apps that could theoretically replace TextEdit. I think I can group these apps into two separate categories. In this list you will not find apps built with Electron - hence the absence of a well-loved app like Obsidian - because not only I might as well list web apps like StackEdit, but I am a firm believer and aficionado of Mac-assed Mac apps. I’ve also added a bunch of other good apps that I used briefly. I managed to avoid this issue by using Input as the font, but it’s strange to me that Apple doesn’t seem to treat this app as well as others, like Mail for instance.īelow you will find a list of six main apps that I tried and considered for this very important role, and that I can recommend to anyone reading these lines. The only thing that is really annoying about it is the lack of a line-height setting when using plain text mode. I’ve used TextEdit as my only writing app for a few months, and it’s fine. If I want to consider myself somehow serious about this blog, I figured an extra app dedicated to write was justified and necessary to be added in this setup. In a quest for a minimalistic setup, I wanted to find the app that was good enough to either replace or complete TextEdit in my writing workflow. Blame Brett Terpstra’s excellent Markdown service tools, Blot simple and efficient file structure, and TextEdit for being more than adequate to write and edit the few blog posts I manage to publish each year. My workflow doesn’t really call for all its features anymore. ![]() I’ve stopped using Drafts a couple of months ago, but I still love Drafts. ![]() Two years ago, I switched from iA Writer to Drafts. Finding a native and fast text editor for the Mac in 2022・The Jolly Teapot The Jolly Teapotby Nicolas Magand・ About this site・ RSS Finding a native and fast text editor for the Mac in 2022 ![]()
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