Text Editors

Freeplane supports mind mapping, knowledge management, and project planning for organizing and communicating ideas.

NotepadNext reimplements Notepad++ for multiple platforms, and its project notes warn about bugs and incomplete features.

Browse free Google Docs templates for uses including budgets, business plans, calendars, checklists, and invitations.

Bubbl.us provides online mind maps, organizational charts, and virtual whiteboards for collaborative brainstorming.

Slashit combines text expansion, AI sentence rewriting, and clipboard history on Mac and Windows.

Notepads offers a lightweight Windows 10 text editor as an alternative to existing code editors.

Edit Markdown in the browser with a live GFM preview, diagrams, export, and sharing options, without logging in.

Zim Desktop Wiki lets users maintain linked pages and organize notes in a folder structure through its desktop wiki application.

This open-source React and Vue library edits DOCX documents with tracked changes and real-time collaboration.

jamovi provides an open statistical spreadsheet designed for accessible analysis and powered by the R statistical language.

Use Asciistrator to create ASCII vector graphics, with controls for layers, shapes, text, and styles.

Create mind maps, diagrams, and notes with Heimer, a desktop tool targeting Linux and Windows.

Vikunja is open-source task management with lists, Kanban boards, and Gantt charts, available to self-host or use as a hosted service.

Open-source GNOME Markdown editor for Linux with a clean writing view, focus mode, spellcheck, document statistics and export options.

Browser-based Markdown editor with live preview, offline storage and sync or export to Google Drive, Dropbox and GitHub. Free and open source.

ONLYOFFICE provides an online office suite compatible with Microsoft Office formats for document editing and collaboration.

Overleaf is a browser-based LaTeX editor with real-time collaboration and document templates. Its free plan supports one collaborator per project; paid plans add capacity and editing features.

Zettlr supports writing workflows from initial notes through journal submissions and book manuscripts in one application.

SharePad supports coding interviews with a real-time collaborative editor and built-in compilers.

Fastedit supports text editing across multiple documents in a Windows application written in C#.

NotesOnline provides a browser notepad with rich text, tabs, autosave, and TXT, Markdown, or HTML exports.

This online ASCII art creator converts images to monochrome or color text art and turns text into ASCII banners.

Dillinger offers online Markdown editing with live preview, HTML or PDF export, and sync options for GitHub, Dropbox, and Google Drive.

TEXT-IMAGE.com converts pictures on a device into text images and ASCII art.