OS X: Plain text is plain text, but if it has an unusual file extension that the Finder doesn't understand then it'll assume it's something else. This. Skip to Main Content.

Text files don't have bold, italics, header sizes, margin tabs, or anything that might get lost in travel from one word editing tool to another. Text files just have text, and I love them for it.

Gina and Adam P. told me, when I first started at Lifehacker, that their to-do lists were simple text files. "Crazy Amish reactionaries," I thought. Now I'm on Team Plain Text, and I won't go back ...

Textor was introduced recently on Apple’s App Store, and the free app has quickly won over many plain text users as a simple way to open nearly any file in place, edit, and save it back to the ...