Awesome Plaintext

A curated list of plaintext software and resources.

Storing your data in plain text files makes them readable, version-controllable, and future-proof.

Contents

• Accounting
• Calendar
• Desktop Wiki
• General
• Languages
• Music Sequencing
• Note Taking
• Project Management
• Publishing
• Recipe Management
• Synchronization
• Task Management

Accounting

• Plain Text Accounting
• Ledger
• hledger
• Beancount
• Transity

Calendar

• Calendar.txt
• calcurse
• When
• sdep

Desktop Wiki

• Obsidian

General

• The Plain Text Project

Journaling

• Journal.TXT
• Obsidian

Languages

Data Serialization

• YAML
• JSON

Markup

• Markdown
• Org-mode
• reStructuredText
• AsciiDoc

Music Sequencing

• textbeat
• bliplay

Note Taking

• Obsidian
• Org-mode

Project Management

• The Unreasonable Effectiveness Of Plain Text
• GitHub Issues

Publishing

• Blot
• Jekyll
• Hugo
• WriteFreely
• bashblog
• mdBook
• Sphynx

Platforms

• GitHub Pages - free
• Bear Blog - free
• mataroa - free/paid
• Obsidian Publish - paid
• write.as - paid

Recipe Management

• Chowdown
• Cooklang
• Grocery format

Synchronization

• SyncThing
• FreeFileSync
• GoodSync
• Resilio Connect

Version Control

• GitHub
• GitLab

Task Management

• Todo.txt
• Obsidian
• Org-mode