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AppStories· Folge 479

Revisiting the Text Editor Landscape

Montag, 6. April 2026 · 39 min

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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.md)
• Obsidian CLI

• Obsidian Sync (obsidian.md/sync)

• Drafts (getdrafts.com)
• Drafts Action Directory (actions.getdrafts.com)

• Drafts MCP Server (forums.getdrafts.com/t/drafts-mcp-server-for-c…)

• Notion (notion.so)

• Panda

• Bear (bear.app)

• Zed (zed.dev)

Other Markdown and Plain Text Editors
• iA Writer (ia.net/writer)

• Ulysses (ulysses.app)

• Typora (typora.io)

• github.com/MarkEdit-app/MarkEdit

• Clearly Markdown (clearly.md)

• Atlas (contagious.dev/product/atlas)

• Runestone (runestone.app)

• FSNotes (fsnot.es)

File Formats
• TextBundle (textbundle.org)

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Writing Workflow Tools
• Claude Code (claude.ai/code)

• DropOver (dropoverapp.com)

• Pandoc (pandoc.org)

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