@FrugalGamer Ahh your blog made me smile so wide! Never have I seen a pixel font so cute. This is the kind of autonomous creativity I love.
“ I lost notes once before when switching phones because I went from one manufacturer to another, but will never suffer again now.”
High five. #WhyPlainText
Put up a short blog post today answering @ellane 's eight questions about plain text here:
www.thefrugalgamer.net/blog/2026/01/22/questionnaire-plain-text/
#blog #blogger #questionnaire #plaintext #plaintextlife #blogpost #whyplaintext
RE: https://pkm.social/@ellane/115918904430809863
The tool I couldn’t do without: Obsidian
I’ve used other markdown tools in the past for my plain text needs but this is the first tool I’ve felt very at home with.
I feel like it can handle the two extremes of just text (not even a sprinkle of markdown) all the way to “technically still a text file but you gotta squint real hard”
I use it to write long and short form content, track books I’ve read, and learn Irish with flashcards. Great stuff.
@ellane I would be in mourning if 1Writer or Drafts were to be discontinued. #WhyPlainText
@ellane here is my take on these questions https://mstempl.netlify.app/post/using-plain-text-files/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@aleemshaun/115921386408175076
Is there a plain text tool you can’t do without?
“ In theory, no. That’s the beauty of plain text. But I would be sad if I could no longer use iA Writer or Taskpaper.”
Thanks, Aleem! Great post. #PlainText #WhyPlainText
Ellane offers her responses to Russ Sharek's questions why one uses plain text, and invites others to answer these questions as well. I wish I could say that I considered all these questions (and others) and made a considered decision to move to plain text. It was more gradual and almost accidental than that. But I'm definitely happy I made the move. I explain why on the blog.
I cannot answer for @quijote_libre but, for me, org is very much an integral part of my daily working environment, be it for writing prose and code or project and time management. Whether it is a convenience or a necessity is a matter of degrees. I could obviously do everything I'm doing without org but I would find it more jarring, having to mix and match various tools.
The one key feature of org mode is that it is all just text so other tools will be able to access data/information in my org files if need be. I'm not locked in to some vendor...
edit: minor grammar fix
I accepted the invitation from @ellane to answer eight questions about using plain text files. You should too (if you use plain text files).
Without doubt @obsidian.
I use it as a commonplace book with zettlekasten style linking and from that also generate my website. At work it’s a task and project tracker alongside meeting notes.
This week: How would you answer these questions posed by plain text guru, Scott Nesbitt? (He no longer maintains his website, sadly.)
Question 7: Is there one tool you can't do without?
Join the fun by tagging your answers #WhyPlainText, and mention me (@ellane)
https://miscellaneplans.medium.com/ptpl-192-answer-these-eight-questions-about-your-plain-text-files-3497bc4b6761 (includes blog post link)
