1. Write and publish academic papers in plain text using markdown, Pandoc and Citeproc - Scott Selisker
  2. Read RSS feeds and newsletters in plain text using newsboat
  3. To-do lists and task management using the todo.txt format or the today.txt format (though both have got too many moving parts for me! I use a similar but simpler method)
  4. Calendar using the Calendar.txt format - Tero Karvinen
  5. Journal in plain text - George Coghill
  6. Budgeting and keeping track of your money - there are some sophisticated plain text accounting tools like ledger, but for my purposes and after extensive research, I’ve landed on the very simple system of just keeping a plain text list of accounts and then manually updating the list of accounts each week
  7. Write websites using Jeykll with Github Pages
  8. Do statistical programming in R (and why would you want to use another statistical programming language anyway? historically I’ve wanted to use other packages for spatial data analysis and non-linear optimisation, but terra and TMB are so good that I don’t even feel that need anymore)
  9. Sync your text files across your devices using syncthing
  10. Using Pulsar text editor and its packages, you can do more than you’d think possible (e.g. script-runner to run bash scripts from inside the text editor, such as when you want to update your website) - Pulsar is like R for plain text