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Oct 22, 2026
Mikah SargentHOST
And it's kind of a little scratch pad for me, even now that I don't do it as like a day, I used to have this feature.
Mikah SargentHOST
or a little system where every day TextEdit would automatically create and open a new file and then give it a date slug.
Mikah SargentHOST
And then that was my sort of daily TextEdit note.
Mikah SargentHOST
And now that I've moved over to these other apps, I don't use that as much, but TextEdit is still very important.
Mikah SargentHOST
Moving along though to the news, the news is up next.
Mikah SargentHOST
All right, Rosemary Orchard, since we last spoke, Apple, of course, said, hey, it's time to preorder your iPhone.
Mikah SargentHOST
And it's kind of a little scratch pad for me, even now that I don't do it as like a day, I used to have this feature.
Mikah SargentHOST
or a little system where every day TextEdit would automatically create and open a new file and then give it a date slug.
Mikah SargentHOST
And then that was my sort of daily TextEdit note.
Mikah SargentHOST
And now that I've moved over to these other apps, I don't use that as much, but TextEdit is still very important.
Mikah SargentHOST
Moving along though to the news, the news is up next.
Mikah SargentHOST
All right.
Mikah SargentHOST
And we would love to hear about the way that you do it.
Mikah SargentHOST
There was someone in the chat who said they use a mixture of text edit and and notes as their means of kind of organizing their digital life and it's funny i'm also a huge text edit user on mac os um i more often these days use uh bb edit and ia writer uh but text edit is still the like it's always open on my mac there's always a text box ready for me to use and put stuff in and it's kind of a little scratch pad for me even now that i don't do it as like a date i used to have this feature or a little system where every day TextEdit would automatically create and open a new file and then give it a date slug.
Mikah SargentHOST
And then that was my sort of daily TextEdit note.
Mikah SargentHOST
And now that I've moved over to these other apps, I don't use that as much, but TextEdit is still very important.
Mikah SargentHOST
Moving along, though, to the news, the news is up next.
Mikah SargentHOST
All right, Rosemary Orchard, since we last spoke, Apple, of course, said, hey, it's time to preorder your iPhone duos.
Mikah SargentHOST
And it's kind of a little scratch pad for me, even now that I don't do it as like a day, I used to have this feature.
Mikah SargentHOST
or a little system where every day TextEdit would automatically create and open a new file and then give it a date slug.
Mikah SargentHOST
And then that was my sort of daily TextEdit note.
Mikah SargentHOST
And now that I've moved over to these other apps, I don't use that as much, but TextEdit is still very important.
Mikah SargentHOST
Moving along though to the news, the news is up next.
Mikah SargentHOST
All right.
Allison SheridanHOST
But there's a classic macOS app that never gets any coverage.
Allison SheridanHOST
TextEdit.
Allison SheridanHOST
You may think you need a big girl word processor like Word, Pages, LibreOffice, or even Google Docs.
Allison SheridanHOST
But after I go through all of the features of TextEdit, you may change your mind.
Allison SheridanHOST
And remember, it's free.
Allison SheridanHOST
The big apps take up a lot of memory, too.
Allison SheridanHOST
Pages uses 260 megabytes to open a new blank file, while TextEdit uses less than 60 megabytes.
Allison SheridanHOST
When you first launch TextEdit, you get the familiar dialog box where you can select an existing text file to open.
Kyle BalmerHOST
This is important to realize.
Kyle BalmerHOST
If you copy the text into a Word document or into TextEdit, that does nothing.
Kyle BalmerHOST
The watermark is still there.
Kyle BalmerHOST
The words are still there.
Chance MillerHOST
I keep all of my files on my desktop.
Benjamin MayoHOST
And it doesn't feel like a thing that's very secure because like, let's say I download TextEdit 125, right? And I'm editing documents on my desktop.
Benjamin MayoHOST
So at that point in time, all that's on my desktop is just some TextEdit files, right? But I have to grind permission to TextEdit to access my desktop.
Benjamin MayoHOST
But then two months later, I could put super private information on my desktop.
John SiracusaHOST
Yeah.
John SiracusaHOST
Uh, op- open, open up, uh, TextEdit.
John SiracusaHOST
Go to File, Open.
John SiracusaHOST
Select that file.
Marco SalsicciaGUEST
It's literally just a plain text file.
Marco SalsicciaGUEST
Use Notepad or use TextEdit and just start writing your own graphics right there.
Marco SalsicciaGUEST
It's not like a progressive code like JavaScript or anything like that.
Marco SalsicciaGUEST
You're just writing markup language.
Janine StanleyHOST
Maybe.
Janine StanleyHOST
Now, you made a good point before the show, you know, how is it still screwing up in TextEdit? I don't know 'cause I haven't read or written a long document in there yet-
Brian FischlerHOST
Oh
Janine StanleyHOST
... other than a page, so I will report back because, uh-