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 handles local files and a single "journal" document kept in localstorage.

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 in terms of design.

User guide

By default, the app opens the "journal" document, Dead Simple Text.txt, which is synchronised with localstorage. If you change the filename you fork a new, non-synchronised document.

• New clears the document
• Load opens a local text file
• Save downloads the text file
• Help goes here
• TAB indents the selection
• SHIFT+TAB un-indents the selection
• F6 untraps the tab key (for accessibility)

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 2024