We really do live in a world with a cornucopia of excellent text editors available on the Mac. My favourite editors are:

1. The Archive - for short snippets of text.
2. iA Writer 4 - for most written projects
3. Highland 2 - for scripts
4. Coda 2 - for coding

@matigo I guess those little niggles will be ironed out with the upcoming version maybe?

@kaa Good list! I use them all myself. Sometimes it seems there are too many, and I'm immobilized by choice. It's taken me a while to sort things out, but if I focus on the workflow, the appropriate app makes itself known.

Currently using:

• Bear
• Ulysses
• Highland 2 (and sometimes Slugline, because I have it)

The situation on iOS is maybe even more wacky:

• Drafts 5
• Ulysses
• iA Writer
• Editorial

@rogerscrafford great list (never bought Slugline on account of Highland doing its thing and more). Bear looks interesting but I’ve been an iA writer fanboy for too long (and it’s the best editor on iOS, except for the now defunct Vesper).

@cdevroe After a long search for a Notational Velocity replacement that search is over with The Archive. So great and a paid app as well.

@kaa I’m looking forward to trying it.

@kulturnation so it’s not about the extra features (apart from the MD highlighting which I appreciate), it’s the fact that the app is stable (inline NV), being actively developed (dev updates several times a month, and listens to suggestions), and is rock stable (unlike other iterations on this concept). I use the Merlin Mann ‘x’ notation so don’t have a use for the categories pane.

@kaa "Merlin's x-notation"? Would you mind expanding on this a bit?

@svenseebeck Sure. So the way you categorise or name your text files is done in the following way: Projectx - File Reference. So for example I tend to write a month's worth of entries into a single text file, and my file will be called: jrnlx - 201805
You add the x because then you can quickly filter all the files that have those characters (few words have an 'x' in them). I have a bunch of refx files (so references, or lifex or kaax or whatever).

@kulturnation So the way you categorise or name your text files is done in the following way: Projectx - File Reference. So for example I tend to write a month's worth of entries into a single text file, and my file will be called: jrnlx - 201805 You add the x because then you can quickly filter all the files that have those characters (few words have an 'x' in them). I have a bunch of refx files (so references, or lifex or kaax or whatever).

@kaa Neat, thanks! I will have to give this a try. I have long been thinking how to re-organize, or improve my filenaming. This, or a variation thereof could be very useful.