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A collection of awesome .TXT / Text tools, formats, services, tips & tricks and more.
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A collection of awesome .TXT / Text tools, formats, services, tips & tricks and more.

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Text, Text, Text - The past, present and future of writing (and publishing).

# Awesome .TXT / Text

A collection of awesome .TXT / Text tools, formats, services, tips & tricks and more.

#### _Contributions welcome. Anything missing? Send in a pull request. Thanks._

## Formats

[**Journal.TXT**](https://journaltxt.github.io) - single-text file journals - the human multi-document format for writers

```
---
day: Wed 19
---
Let's reinvent push-button publishing on the internets!
Use a single-file for your journal / diary / blog. That's it.
---
day: Thu 20
---
Crazy idea? Let's put up a website and a example blog auto-generated from journal.txt.
---
day: Fri 21
---
Did you know? The single-file format works great for advent calendars
or beer-of-the-day calendars.
```

[**Todo.TXT**](https://github.com/ginatrapani/todo.txt-cli/wiki/The-Todo.txt-Format) by Gina Trapani et al -- future-proof task tracking in a file you control; if you want to get it done, first write it down.

```
(A) Call Mom @Phone +Family
(A) Schedule annual checkup +Health
(B) Outline chapter 5 +Novel @Computer
(C) Add cover sheets @Office +TPSReports
Plan backyard herb garden @Home
Pick up milk @GroceryStore
Research self-publishing services +Novel @Computer
x Download Todo.txt mobile app @Phone
```

[**Feed.TXT**](https://feedtxt.github.io) - free web feeds format in (plain) text w/ structured meta data

```
|>>>
title: My Example Feed
home_page_url: https://example.org/
feed_url: https://example.org/feed.txt
>
id: 2
url: https://example.org/second-item
---
This is a second item.
>
id: 1
url: https://example.org/initial-post
---
Hello, world!
<<<|
```

[**Manuscripts**](http://manuscripts.github.io) - free book format - write books in (plain) text

```
---
title: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
year: 1886
author:
name: Robert Louis Stevenson
---

=Story of the Door=

Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance, that was
never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in
discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary, and
yet somehow lovable. At friendly meetings, and when the wine was to
his taste, something eminently human beaconed from his eye;
something indeed which never found its way into his talk, but which
spoke not only in these silent symbols of the after-dinner face, but
more often and loudly in the acts of his life...
```

[**Bib.TXT**](http://bibtxt.github.io) - free bibliographies in text (unicode) format - BibTeX for the 21st century - books, articles, & more

```
[Fau86]
author: J.W. Goethe
title: Faust. Der Tragödie Erster Teil
publisher: Reclam
year: 1986
address: Stuttgart
```

[**Ledger**](http://plaintextaccounting.org/quickref) - double-entry bookkeeping / accounting in (plain) text; follow your money

```
2016/1/1 set opening balance
assets:checking $500.00
equity:opening balances

2016/1/5 farmer's market
expenses:groceries $50.00
assets:checking
```

## Light Markup

_Structured documents in text with formatting conventions_

**Markdown** -- see [Awesome Markdown](https://github.com/mundimark/awesome-markdown)

- [**Kramdown**](https://kramdown.gettalong.org) -- see [Awesome Kramdown](https://github.com/viennahtml/awesome-kramdown)

**Wikipedia Markup / Wiki Text**

**DokuWiki Markup**

[**Wiki Creole**](http://www.wikicreole.org)

[**Text with Instruction (.texti)**](https://texti.github.io) - structured documents in text with formatting conventions; the best of markdown, wikipedia markup, latex & Friends - all together now

[**AsciiDoc**](http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc) by Stuart Rackham et al

[**Rimu Markup**](http://rimumarkup.org) by Stuart Rackham et al

**reStructured Text (.rst)**

**[Org /Org mode (Ecmacs)](http://orgmode.org)** -- your life in (plain) text; keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, planning projects, and writing documents in fast and effective (plain) text

**[txt2tags](http://txt2tags.org)**

#### More

- [Compare Wiki Syntax @ WikiMatrix](http://www.wikimatrix.org/syntax.php)
- [Markup & Markdown Madness!](https://markupmadness.github.io)
- [Lightweight markup language @ Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_markup_language)

## Datafile Formats

_Values, records, hierarchies (trees), types & more_

**CSV (Comma-Separated Values)** -- see [Awesome CSV](https://github.com/csvalues/awesome-csv)

[**YAML (YAML Ain't Markup Language)**](http://yaml.org) -- see [Awesome YAML](https://github.com/datatxt/awseome-yaml)

[**JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)**](http://json.org) -- see [Awesome JSON (What's Next?)](https://github.com/jsonii/awesome-json-next)

[**TOML (Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language)**](https://github.com/toml-lang/toml) by Tom Preston-Werner et al

[**Markdown Configuration (.mdconf)**](https://github.com/tj/mdconf) by TJ Holowaychuk et al

## More

[**Plain Text Project**](https://plaintextproject.online) by Scott Nesbitt et al

[**Plain Text Accounting**](http://plaintextaccounting.org) by Simon Michael et al

- [**Ledger Syntax Quick Reference**](http://plaintextaccounting.org/quickref)

[**Mundi Mark**](https://mundimark.github.io) - all about markup & markdown

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