PlainPad

PlainPad is an editor for plain text files with a clean interface. With its extensive default settings, PlainPad offers a myriad of options to customize the writing environment to your own needs and preferences. Whether quick notes, ideas, tasks or extensive texts, PlainPad offers an environment for all types of writing to put your thoughts into words.

 

Customizable editor

PlainPad offers extensive preference options for the editor. In addition to the font type,

size

, color and background color, the font color and background color for selected text can also be set. In addition, there are settings available to change the spacing between lines and edges as well as a special area to adjust the cursor.

 

Opening files

PlainPad can open all simple text files without question, e.g. files with the extension css, csv, h, html, m, md, markdown, php, txt, swift, xml and many more.

 

Renove Text-Formattings

With PlainPad it is possible to remove styles and formatting from texts without much effort.

 

Copy Paste

• Add the desired text to the pasteboard and paste it into PlainPad and the inserted text is freed from any formatting automatically.

Import of text documents.

• Existing text documents with formatting can be easily imported into PlainPad. All formatting is removed so that only the plain text remains. PlainPad supports the import of the following known formats: txt, rtf, rtfd, html, doc, docx, odt, wordml, webarchive.

 

Other special functions

 

Write without saving

• Just write something down and close the window again, but the save Dialogue disturbs? The save dialog can be switched off via the preferences of PlainPad.

Always in the foreground

• Does the document always disappear behind other windows when working in other programs? With the activated “Always on top”-feature, the document is always at reach.

Counter

• PlainPad counts characters, words and lines automatically.

Text encoding

• PlainPad can handle a variety of text encodings and can be set specifica