Newbie working with plain text: best practices for formatting etc?
Submitted by mjc on January 22, 2008 - 4:13am.
Hey all,
I’ve searched far and wide online and am really surprised not to find very much info on this (perhaps I’m using the wrong search terms!).
After reading Bit Literacy, I decided that I wanted to starting using plain text files more at work, especially for notes. Unfortunately, years of reading 43F has enhanced my fiddly nature, and I’m more focused on trying to format my notes “correctly,” or at least to have some sort of standard to stick to.
Does anyone have any best practices (or web resources) for working with text on a page? Currently, I find text files difficult to read (and line breaks confusing).
Any thoughts?
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another thing...
More info about what you’re trying to do in plain text might help. I assume from the forum that you are trying to roll your own PIM, but more detail would help us come up with best practices recommendations.