Revisiting the Text Editor Landscape

What's New in Text Editors?

Show Notes

This week on AppStories, John and Federico revisit the state of text editors on Apple platforms and how they use them.

On AppStories+, John and Federico dig deeper into their writing workflows and the apps they’re using to write.

Also available on YouTube here.

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Links and Show Notes

Text Editors Discussed

• Obsidian
  • Obsidian CLI
  • Obsidian Sync
• Drafts
  • Drafts Action Directory
  • Drafts MCP Server
• Notion
• Panda
• Bear
• Zed

Other Markdown and Plain Text Editors

• iA Writer
• Ulysses
• Typora
• MarkEdit
• Clearly Markdown
• Atlas
• Runestone
• FSNotes

File Formats

• TextBundle

AppStories+ Post-Show

Writing Workflow Tools

• Claude Code
• DropOver
• Pandoc

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