Sophisticated deep linking to paragraphs and sentences on the NYT site. Double tap shift to activate.

A simple text editor, designed for drafting mail, tweets, &c.

Text editor/IDE.

"For people who want their writing synced online. SimpleText keeps a folder of text files on your Mac synced to the SimpleText.ws website. Unlike manual syncing, SimpleText merges your changes so you'll never lose data." Not sure I need *another* sync option...

"Previously, building SMS apps was hard... it could take months of negotiations, approvals, and hundreds or thousands of dollars up-front and every month to get started.  With Twilio SMS, it's as easy as buying a Twilio phone number from the Twilio account portal or Phone Numbers REST API for $1 / month, and immediately start receiving and sending text messages using Twilio's SMS REST API for just 3 cents per message."

"Eclipse is a free on-line archive focusing on digital facsimiles of the most radical small-press writing from the last quarter century. Eclipse also publishes carefully selected new works of book-length conceptual unity."

A perl script that syncs a folder of text files with Simplenote. Alpha, but seems pretty stable.

"MyTextFile is ajax-powered online text editor for a single plain text file."

A little applescript to append text to a specific file (so it's not really a replacement for the QS command).

Minimal CMS, configured with text files.

WriteRoom clone. Has some interesting features, including set target word count.

WriteRoom clone.

Evernote's developers seem weirdly resistant to providing a feature that every sane user must want: export. The current proprietary XML format fudge doesn't count - if I put a text file or image into Evernote, I should be able to get a text file or image out (they have a point about the difficulty of exporting mixed notes, containing images, text and audio in multiple formats, of course). To be honest, I'm more annoyed with myself than Evernote. If I'd checked to see how they handled export, I never would've started using the app in the first place, so it's by own fault I'll now have to laboriously cut and paste all my notes if I want to keep them safe.

"Editra is a multi-platform text editor with an implementation that focuses on creating an easy to use interface and features that aid in code development." Must download immediately! Even though it's not aimed at people who write words (as opposed to code).

Includes instructions on how to select text, and how to use the file sharing feature (and how to find the help button in the app, which I totally didn't see!)

I've been avoiding downloading the demo just in case it's ace (I'm sure it is for coding types, but it's a fair few quid to drop on something I'd use primarily for writing words).

I have to use it on one of my servers. Command and insert my arse.

Has live word count. Doesn't do anything fancy. Can't wait to try it out.

Fancy word processor thing. I have no need for 99% of its features, but I'm still tempted, because you can set a target word count.

"Pandoc is... for converting from one markup format to another. It can read markdown... reStructuredText, HTML, and LaTeX, and it can write markdown, reStructuredText, HTML, LaTeX, ConTeXt, RTF, DocBook XML, groff man, and S5 HTML slide shows."

Flsh-based online word processor. Very slick, to the point that it feels like a 'real' application.

Recommended by Stewart Kelly.

"TaskPaper is a simple to-do list application that helps you stay organized. Unlike competing applications, TaskPaper is based on plain text files which offer you paper-like simplicity and ease of use."

Really very slick.

OnlyWire: The Only BookMarklet You'll Ever Need!

Texty tips and links.

"twttr is a text messaging service based on the idea that everyone and everything has a status. twttr keeps you connected to your friends by subscribing to their status." - mobile mutual glancing.

"musicpad is an online musical notepad which lets you code your musical inspiration in a simple way [plain text] and generate midi files."

Nifty little script for making lots of little lists from one big list.

The full text of Dr. Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream' speech, delivered on August 28th, 1963.

A weblog in a robots.txt file.

Some nice tips: think I'll nick 'metasymbols' for marking different types of text files.

The latest doohickey from 37Signals, for collaboratively editing short-ish texts online. Looks more useful as a feature of Backpack (I have a free account there, it's super-useful) than a standalone web app.

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