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You can sync with Simplenote or store your notes in a folder synced with Dropbox or another service to access your notes on different devices.īoth searching and creating new notes are done the same way. On the bottom or on the right is the note you’re currently editing. You have a pane either on top or on the left that shows you a list of your notes. This is also fairly up to date, meaning it will work better on recent macOS versions. NValt is, as the name implies, a fork of Notational Velocity that adds MultiMarkdown support. The reason is that many of the apps on this list look to Notational Velocity, a Mac app, for inspiration. There’s a distinct reason that we’re starting with Mac. All you need is an app that makes it easy to create, edit, and search your notes. You can be pretty sure you’ll be able to open a plain text file in twenty years, which is something you can’t say about many file types. Works great on Mavericks.Īnyway, just wanted to share in case there was anyone else out there similarly frustrated.There’s a simple alternative to these apps: plain text. It has the speed and minimalism of TextEdit, but is much much more customizable. It's wonderfully capable, especially considering it apparently hasn't been in development for quite some time.

While plenty of them were customizable, they always had too many bells and whistles and/or didn't start up quickly enough (two "jumps" in the Dock is too much).Ī few weeks ago I found Fraise, and there's no turning back. TextWrangler, Bean, Brackets, Notational Velocity (great for notes but not for real coding/writing), blah blah blah. So I scoured the net for every free text editor that could run on a Mac. The only problem was I really wanted to be able to change the default length of tabs in TextEdit's plain text documents, and despite a lot of searching couldn't find a thing.

I love that it starts up literally instantly, uses next-to-no memory, and has no clutter at all.

I've religiously used TextEdit for everything from writing reports to coding HTML to scripting PHP and Javascript and OpenSCAD.