Apps with 'Plain text file' feature

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  1. Obsidian icon
     1107 likes

    Obsidian is a note-taking app that lets you create a personal knowledge graph with ease. It is designed for non-linear thinking and allows you to easily link your notes together wiki-style.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Snapcraft
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Flathub
    • Safari
    • Mozilla Firefox
    • AppImage
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    +4
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    201 alternatives
    4.7
    Excellent169 reviews
  2. Zim icon
     511 likes

    Zim brings the concept of a wiki to your desktop. Store information, link pages and edit with WYSISYG markup or directly typing some lightweight markup syntax and see it previewed as-you-type. Creating a new page is easy by either clicking on the "Create new note"...

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    Zim screenshot 1
    Graphviz graph using Diagram plugin
    Formatting options available
    +1
    Hiding all toolbars and statusbar for maximum screen space
    327 alternatives
    3.8
    Good25 reviews
  3. QOwnNotes icon
     96 likes

    Plain text notepad with markdown support and todo list manager for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows, that works together with the notes application of ownCloud.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • PortableApps.com
    • Qt
    QOwnNotes main screen
    QOwnNotes main screen vertical layout
    QOwnNotes todo list manager
    +3
    QOwnNotes notes diff
    278 alternatives
    4.5
    Excellent13 reviews
  4. Markdown icon
     172 likes

    Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Markdown screenshot 1
    13 alternatives
  5. DokuWiki icon
     190 likes

    DokuWiki is a standards compliant, simple to use Wiki, mainly aimed at creating documentation of any kind. It is targeted at developer teams, workgroups and small companies. It has a simple but powerful syntax which makes sure the datafiles remain readable outside the Wiki and...

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
    DokuWiki screenshot 1
    DokuWiki screenshot 1
    95 alternatives
  6. BrainTool icon
     6 likes

    BrainTool is a tabs, sessions, bookmark manager. Easily assign a page into a hierarchical set of topics and drop in a note. Then use your topics to open and close tabs and tab groups. Text search, keyboard control, accessible plain text storage.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Google Chrome
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    BrainTool screenshot 1
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    +1
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    25 alternatives
  7. The GNU Core Utilities or coreutils is a package of GNU software containing many of the basic tools, such as cat, ls, and rm, needed for Unix-like operating systems. It is a combination of a number of earlier packages, including textutils, shellutils, and fileutils, along with...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    5 alternatives
  8. Daily Diary icon
     2 likes

    Jot down whatever you want throughout the day and the app will reset the next morning. All previous days are stored in plaintext files which can be exported and moved to a different device.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid
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    +2
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    49 alternatives
  9.  2 likes

    LionWiki is a minimalist Wiki engine programmed in PHP. It is extensible, templatable, file based (it doesn't need database like MySQL) and requires just one file to function. It is suitable for small websites, personal notebooks or journals.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
    LionWiki screenshot 1
    51 alternatives
  10. Lama2 icon
     2 likes

    Lama2 defines the human-friendly l2 syntax and CLI for describing and executing APIs. Store your APIs in plain-text files. Collaborate with team using version control (say, git). Run Lama2 directly from VSCode extension. Think of Lama2 as Markdown for APIs.

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    59 alternatives