Plain text has long been a favorite here at Lifehacker, but over the years most people have moved away from it in favor of specialized to-do apps, notes apps, writing apps, or whatever else. I still ...

So, I deleted the heavy applications, threw out the complex systems, and returned to the fundamentals: plain text files, a ...

Copilot integration in Microsoft 365 apps makes it a snap to generate first drafts, revise text, and get instant summaries for long docs or email threads. Here’s how to use Copilot for writing ...

Earlier this year, I promised myself that I would get more work done using the iPad. The plan was an ambitious one: after three years of writing, researching, and online communication done exclusively ...

We are bombarded by distractions every moment of every day. Some of them are of our own making; others are basically unavoidable. As I sat writing this story my Fitbit reminded me to get up and move, ...

If you want to view a Text file in Command Prompt window or PowerShell window in your Windows 11/10 system, then this tutorial will help you. You can view the entire text file or partial content using ...

For years, nothing seemed capable of turning around New Dorp High School’s dismal performance—not firing bad teachers, not flashy education technology, not after-school programs. So, faced with ...

In May, I was confronted with a robot version of my writer self. It was made, at my request, by a Silicon Valley startup called Writer, which specializes in building artificial-intelligence tools that ...

English teacher Carrie Beth Buchanan sees the effects of students’ growing up in an age when communication is done in an abbreviated text language and where they depend on autocorrect to automatically ...

What if, in the end, we are done in not by intercontinental ballistic missiles or climate change, not by microscopic pathogens or a mountain-size meteor, but by … text? Simple, plain, unadorned text, ...