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Apr 6, 2026 38 min

Revisiting the Text Editor Landscape

from AppStories Hosted by Federico Viticci, John Voorhees

This week on AppStories, John and Federico revisit the state of text editors on Apple platforms and how they use them. On AppStories+, John and Federico dig deeper into their writing workflows and the apps they’re using to write. Also available on YouTube here. Subscribe here. We deliver AppStories+ to subscribers with bonus content, ad-free, and at a high bitrate early every week. To learn more about an AppStories+ subscription, visit our [Plans page](https://appstories.net/plans, or read the AppStories+ FAQ. This episode is sponsored by: Steamclock – We make great apps. Design and development, from demos to details. Claude – Ready to tackle bigger problems? Get started with Claude today. Links and Show Notes Text Editors Discussed Obsidian Obsidian CLI Obsidian Sync Drafts Drafts Action Directory Drafts MCP Server Notion Panda Bear Zed Other Markdown and Plain Text Editors iA Writer Ulysses Typora MarkEdit Clearly Markdown Atlas Runestone FSNotes File Formats TextBundle AppStories+ Post-Show Writing Workflow Tools Claude Code DropOver Pandoc Leave Feedback for John and Federico AppStories Feedback Form Follow us on Mastodon AppStories Federico Viticci John Voorhees Follow us on Bluesky AppStories MacStories Federico Viticci John Voorhees Join Annual $50/yearJoin Monthly $5/month

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Revisiting the Text Editor Landscape

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  1. 0:00 Returning to Text Editors
  2. 2:35 Obsidian and Notion
  3. 6:04 Sponsor: Steamclock
  4. 7:26 More on Writing in Notion and Obsidian
  5. 16:26 Drafts
  6. 19:11 Panda, Meteorite, Clearly Markdown
  7. 23:32 Sponsor: Claude by Anthropic
  8. 25:56 Zed
  9. 28:48 Runestone, iA Writer, MD Edit, Typewriter
  10. 33:03 Typeora and Atlas

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