#Textsoap review software#

What I had to do first was to export all those notes individually as Markdown files. The ‘Hex’, hyphen, digit thing was not obvious enough in the sea of text of each note and I wanted to change it to a bolded “’H’ dot digit”.

In every note I have a code at the end of the text that starts with a UID that I automatically generate with Typinator, a simplified name in the form of “‘Hex’, hyphen, digit” and a date string. A couple of weeks ago, I was going through a 120-notes Bear app collection that lives under a single tag. Nowadays, with an explosion of data creation in the form of notes, daily notes, blog entries, etc., though, TextSoap can make a huge difference if you’re on the writing end. Most people rarely needed to “fix” regular text in one text file or across files, simply because we weren’t yet into daily journals or zettelkasten note taking. Whereas the previous versions I reviewed - I skipped versions 7 and 8 - were very useful if you understood Regular Expressions well and were a heavy user of text editors, or you were coding HTML, CSS or programming code. Its TextSoap 9.1 app I’m reviewing here is a godsend for everybody who even only occasionally needs to edit text in more than place.

#Textsoap review software#

It’s incredible that Unmarked software still is a one-man show. Both have gone way beyond the functionality of their initial release. Calling version 9.x a text cleaner is like calling iZotope’s RX9 Advanced an audio repair utility. The tings you can do with it are still called “cleaning”, but perhaps we should really call this app a text manipulation app.

TextSoap started out as a text “cleaning” app many, many moons ago.