When I want to search them (say, from my Mac), I hop into the terminal and type grep -r “search term”. Speaking of which, Zim and Tomboy files are auto-saved to my Dropbox as collections of plain text files. ![]() I can’t use them on my Mac but I use nvAlt on the Mac most of the time anyway. Zim and Tomboy are both Linux-only apps, last I checked. Zim is more like a structured notebook for the desktop. I like the way Dokuwiki is basically a website to which I can control access and create namespaces (special sections) as needed. The one I use most is Dokuwiki, followed by Zim, followed by Tomboy). I wrote this blog post with Textile, so when I click “Save,” all the headings, links, etc. I can write in Markdown, Textile, or ASCIIDoc, using full formatting if I need to. Geeky advantages abound, too: I can pick from any one of a million plain text editors to write whatever I need to write. I already have a ton of junk open in Photoshop so I’ll keep my RAM for that, thanks. ![]() I usually open a Word document and immediately save it to plain text, just to save me the trouble of having another memory-hogging word processor document open. Windows Paint bitmap file? Sure, send it over.) (Clients can send me anything they want because they’re clients. When friends send me Word documents full of basic information, they better be using advanced features to manage that information or I’ll just roll my geeky eyes and convert the thing to plain text. This year I will write hundreds of thousands of words in plain text files. ![]() Since then I’ve been using plain text and it’s so much better. I used to (like 15 years ago) use MS Word for writing things. I can’t blab enough about how plain text has saved my life. Here are the work tools that I’m excited to use in new ways as I start off 2014!
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