Remember, this is plain text. It’s a simple file format. Control + F, type in a couple of words into a search bar, either in the app or in Spotlight on a Mac, and it brings up exactly what I need.

A CSV file is a simple text file that you can open in a wide variety of programs, including any program that works with plain text like the Notepad app. What makes a CSV file unique is the way its ...

Check out our in-depth guide to CSV files below to know what to do the next time you encounter one. CSV stands for Comma-Separated Values, and it's a pretty barebones, plain-text file format that ...

but sometimes the ease and simplicity of working with plain text files can actually be more productive. Here are ten clever plain text files that you might want to keep on hand. This post ...

With Markdown, writing HTML-formatted documents is as easy as writing plain text. Software developers use it, but so do many ...

We’ll find out in this post! SRT files are plain text files that contain information like the sequential number of subtitles, start and end timecode, subtitle text. The timecode format featured ...

Looking back through my old files, I’m amazed to see how many word processors I’ve used over the years. I’ve got document files in formats ranging from MacWrite to Pages and everything in ...

Most of the time, you can copy and paste sections of text from a PDF, but what if you just want to save an entire PDF as a plain text document for easy cutting and pasting? That's when you can ...

That’s just one of the reasons I prefer to work in plain text: It’s timeless. My grandchildren will be able to read a text file I create today, long after anybody can remember what the heck a .dotx ...