Dead Simple Text
Sometimes you just need plain text:
https://www.breck-mckye.com/dead-simple-text/
Dead Simple Text is a web-based text editor with minimalistic design inspired by MS DOS edit / QBASIC. It can open files from the user's filesystem and save them back to a user-specified downloads folder.
I wrote this for myself as an aid for writing notes, stories, blog posts etc. It's shared here in case anyone else would like to play with it.
I wrote DST for fairly simple reasons: I wanted a cross-platform 'distraction free' text editor, and the ones that existed never quite satisfied me aesthetically.
Usage
New
clears the workspaceLoad
opens from the local machineSave
saves to the downloads folderTAB
indents the selectionSHIFT+TAB
unindents the selectionF6
untraps the tab key (for visually impaired users)
Setting the save location
If you want to save a file to a location other than your 'downloads', you'll need to configure your browser to ask you for a location every time a website downloads anything. Unfortunately this option is all-or-nothing: if you want it, it'll affect other websites too.
In Chrome the config item is labelled Ask where to save each file before downloading.
How do I set a filename?
The filename is in the top right - click to edit it.
Building locally
npm run build
License
Dead Simple Text is offered as open source software under the AGPL license . Copyright Jimmy Breck-McKye 2021