![]() I used to use Journler for taking notes on my computer, and when Journler died I moved on to MacJournal. Posted on Tuesday 8 January 2013 Wednesday 9 January 2013 Categories Software Tags Android, iOS, notes, osx, text, writing 2 Comments on Batch convert RTF files to TXT Taking notes It will (of course) remove any formatting, but it will preserve all the (text) content nicely. name \*.rtf -print0 | xargs -0 textutil -convert txt This little line will convert all RTF files in a folder to TXT files: find. Pandoc), but I found the easiest solution was to use the OSX command line utility textutil. There are more complex solutions for converting text files to various formats (e.g. Having a few thousand such files (and some others), I looked for a solution to quickly convert them to plain text files. Fortunately, I have been quite careful about exporting all the notes regularly, mainly as RTF files. I have used a number of different note taking software over the years (e.g. The problem was how to get all my previous notes into my new “system”. Since all the files are just plain text files stored in a regular folder (and sync’ed to the cloud), I can of course also use any text editor to view and write the files. The best thing about nvALT is that it can unobtrusively monitor a folder of text files, and it allows for quickly searching in old files and write new ones. Along the way I decided to shift my note-taking from MacJournal to nvALT. Another reason is to become independent of specific software solutions, forcing you to use a specific software for something as basic as writing text on your computer or device. There are several reasons for this, but perhaps the most important one was all the problems experienced when trying to open other types of text-based files (RTF, DOC, etc.) on various iOS and Android devices that I use daily. ![]() Last year I decided to use plain text files (TXT) as the main file type for all my computer text input.
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