6 Setapp Apps That Can Simplify Your Plain Text Life, And Work Alongside an Obsidian Vault

Remarkably convenient ways to polish, protect, and present your text

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Plain text is the rice in my pilau, the soil in my garden, the ink in my pen.

Future proofing my work, while an important, noble aim, wasn’t the main driver behind my move to plain text back in 2016; a much bigger motivation was to reduce the number of decisions I had to make — and therefore the amount of anxiety I experienced — in the course of a typical day.

Fewer decisions + less anxiety = a good base recipe for a calm, simplified life.

Setapp: where we met, how we broke up, and why we’re happy together again

Pre-plain text, I was intrigued by the idea of Setapp (the first collection of high quality Mac apps available under one subscription) when it first came out, and promptly signed up for their beta. It was a playground I visited from time to time, but didn’t pay serious attention to. Once it became a paid product, I skedadd…