Revisiting the Text Editor Landscape

This week on AppStories, John and Federico revisit the state of text editors on Apple platforms and how they use them.

On AppStories+, John and Federico dig deeper into their writing workflows and the apps they’re using to write.

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Links and Show Notes

Text Editors Discussed

Obsidian

Obsidian CLI

Obsidian Sync

Drafts

Drafts Action Directory

Drafts MCP Server

Notion

Panda

Bear

Zed

Other Markdown and Plain Text Editors

iA Writer

Ulysses

Typora

MarkEdit

Clearly Markdown

Atlas

Runestone

FSNotes

File Formats

TextBundle

AppStories+ Post-Show

Writing Workflow Tools

Claude Code

DropOver

Pandoc