While Linux isn't strictly a text-only system, it has a reputation for making better use of plain text than any other operating system. While many tools cater to programmers, writers, and authors can ...

If you're old enough to remember why you resisted the move away from plain text email, you might be pleased to know there's precious little to stop you going back. Use plain text email is the ...

Google Docs is widely popular for many purposes – the no-frills online platform lets you write and edit essays, create applications, take meeting notes and even make to-do lists. But it doesn’t just ...

With Markdown, writing HTML-formatted documents is as easy as writing plain text. Software developers use it, but so do many others. The Markdown text format makes it easy for people—not only software ...

Regular readers of Mac Gems know that I spend a lot of time working with text—and that I’m always looking for ways to clean up that text. For the ultimate in text cleaning, my tool of choice is ...

We've been using copy-and-paste shortcuts to move text between applications for years. And products like Microsoft's Word and other 365 productivity apps have annoyed us for just as long when copying ...

The issue was corrected through an update this week. If you were one of the many who downloaded OpenAI’s much-anticipated Mac app a few weeks ago we have some bad news: that app has been storing the ...

Radiology reporting was, and still is, behind. Plain text is the standard format in the industry. UVA Health added the option to enhance reports, just like one would encounter with any news article on ...

OpenAI recently launched an official ChatGPT app for macOS, which is also the first ChatGPT app for any desktop platform. While having an app makes the process of talking to the chatbot more seamless, ...

OpenAI has issued an update to its ChatGPT app for Mac, after a developer discovered the app was locally storing users' conversations with the chatbot in plain text. Pedro José Pereira Vieito told The ...

Across Facebook and Instagram, Meta has been storing more than half a billion users' passwords in plain text, with some easily readable for more than a decade. The issue was first uncovered in 2019 ...