5 great browser alternatives to your usual text editor

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

A browser is all you need to write your notes, edit them, and put them in a readable form. Check out 5 awesome text-based web services. They may be able to replace your regular desktop or mobile text editor.

Simplicity and advanced organization of text are one of the main requirements facing a text editor. The first helps to distract from the tinsel of the interface, concentrate and give the result, and the second - to add to the written digestibility in the eyes of the reader. Are the voiced characteristics inherent in your usual software? If not, then we suggest you check out Write !, a very interesting editor for Windows, or get acquainted with five good online tools for working with text.

Yarny

If you are eager to write your own book or other voluminous work, pay attention to Yarny. The web editor is loaded with an impressive number of extremely interesting features. Basic message: you are encouraged to split the text into snippets. Each of the passages can be a sentence, paragraph, section, or an entire chapter. These chunks of text are stored in the left block of the editor and can be colored, shuffled, deleted, and grouped. Thus, you are working on the main plot line.

All auxiliary text is displayed in the right block of the editor. Describe the characters, locations, and individual items that are important to the story and weave them into the overall story. There is a search bar at your service to help you find the material you want in a huge number of passages.

The typing area is also remarkable. As you enter characters, all of the editor's controls dissolve, allowing you to concentrate on writing. Yarny is able to capture intermediate versions of work using the tag history. By clicking on the editor settings gear, you can set yourself a motivating goal - the number of words planned to be written within the session.

Markable

Getting started with Markable should start with an emphasis on the service's support for the simplified Markdown markup language. With it, you can create superbly structured text on the fly with the edits you want. Let me explain with a familiar example. Many users of the Google+ social network enclose individual words of text in special constructs to get italicized, strikethrough, or bold. It is visual and convenient. In the case of Markdown, you can go even further by giving your writing a more expressive look. All the simplicity of the code is reflected in the Help section.

The main features of Markable are available "out of the box", for example, the actual writing and export of text. Once logged in, you will get access to additional features: automatic saving of works every 15 seconds, text synchronization between devices, sending to Dropbox and posting to Tumblr.

Notepad

What could be simpler than the good old Notepad for Windows? Nothing. Its simplicity, pushed to the extreme, has many fans and a number of online counterparts. Notepad.cc is one of them.

Each new editor document is assigned a unique URL. If the automatically generated link does not suit you, you can replace it with your own combination of symbols. In theory, anyone can accidentally stumble upon your text, read it and make edits. But for such unfavorable cases, a protective mechanism is in store - document locking with a password. That's all.

Dillinger

The start page of the service immediately informs about its hobbyhorse - the implementation of the capabilities of the already voiced Markdown simplification. Here is an example of writing text in a popular markup language. Learn without leaving the editor.

Personally, I found Dillinger to be a more convenient tool in comparison with Markable. Here you can connect popular cloud storages, as well as activate synchronous swiping of the editing window with the result area. And he looks nicer. One click of the mouse will hide unnecessary interface elements, leaving you alone with a blank "sheet of paper".

Draft

Within the framework of the article, one cannot pass by Draft - an excellent web editor for collaborative work on documents. Recall that Lifehacker has already written about this wonderful service.

Therefore, we will dwell on it only thesis. And here are the main delights of Draft:

• joint work on the text with the ability to accept and reject edits;
• powerful control and saving of different versions of the document;
• Markdown support;
• application of hot keys to speed up routine operations;
• synchronization with cloud storage;
• customization of fonts and background color.

Try Draft, it might replace Google Docs.

What web text editors can you recommend?