*TXT – Quick Notes

Capture Anything, Anywhere

Free

*TXT (pronounced asterisk text) opens straight to a fresh note. No folders to pick, no titles to fill in. Just start typing. Your text notes are saved as plain .txt files in your own iCloud Drive—yours to keep, open in other apps and use on your own terms. No app account needed. Inspired by Notational Velocity. -Quick capture: Type a quick thought, dictate a note, scan a document, snap a photo or record a voice memo. -Advanced Search: Search across titles, note text, tags and folders, with results as you type. -Comprehensive Import & Export: *TXT supports a variety of files that can then be exported when needed. -Customizable Keyboard: quick actions to suit the way you write. -Always With You: Capture on Mac, iPhone, iPhone Duo, iPad, and Apple Watch.

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Writing - Checked tasks show their completion date as `@done(date)` (on by default, set in Checklist settings). - New keyboard actions: Strikethrough, Blockquote, Code Block, Cut, Add Link, and Plain Text / Rich Text. Delete All is renamed Clear All. - Numbered lists come in five styles (1. · 1) · a. · A. · i.). Code blocks can use backticks or tildes. - Hold a list, divider or code block action on the pill to pick its style. - The keyboard pill holds any number of actions and scrolls. - Return in a nested list keeps the indent. Return on an empty item steps out one level. - Typed and pasted links are tappable; hold one for more, including showing it as a card. - Tag suggestions wait for a letter after `#` and show only when a tag matches. - ⌘+ and ⌘− change the font size. Library & tags - Delete says how many items are selected ("Delete 1 Folder and 2 Notes"). - Tag pages have Edit, a read-only viewer with the tag highlighted, and Delete Tag. - You can tag several notes at once from All Notes, or pick tags from a list in Note Info with Select Tags. - + Tag and + Folder have an X that clears the field, or closes it when empty. - Recently Deleted opens notes and attachments read-only, with Restore and Open. - Read-only viewers show Rich Text, with a Plain Text option. Attachments - New voice memo viewer: transcript, scrubber, skip 15 seconds, rename. - The photo, file and voice memo viewers share one ••• menu with Markup, Extract Text and preview sizes. PDFs page through. - On iPhone, paste photos copied from Photos. - Screenshots and scans go into the note right away. - On Mac, drop files into a note. - Long PDF names keep their .pdf ending. Note Info & settings - Note Info adds Text Count: words, characters, paragraphs, lines and pages. - An "iCloud Updating…" row appears while a note uploads or downloads, and no longer sticks. - New Paper Color and Font Color settings: Black, Charcoal, White or Beige. - Each Storage error has Clear; the list has Clear All. - The ••• button shows a red file icon for a recovered note and a red ! for storage errors. - Print moved into Export; Note Info is first in the ••• menu. Share sheet - Save to a new note or your Pinned Note, at the start or the end. - Choose how a shared link is written, and optionally add transcribed or extracted text. - Switch between Rich Text and Plain Text. - Pictures with a shared link are left out unless you add them. Sync - Edits from two devices are combined line by line, even from an out-of-date copy or a note renamed or moved elsewhere. - A recovered note is only made when the same lines changed both ways, and never twice. - The versions from before each combine are kept for 30 days. - Older versions of the app on your other devices read notes exactly as before. - Attachments iCloud put in a duplicate "… 2" folder move back into their note's folder. - Typing that goes on without a pause is still saved every 3 seconds. - The library rescans far less while you type, and not at every launch. Performance - With 10,000 notes, typing a tag went from 510 ms to 10 ms a keystroke, a tag page from 540 ms to 2 ms, and All Notes from 280 ms to 7 ms. - Search runs in the background. - Large libraries warm up shortly after launch. - Typing with the Black & White or Purple accent doesn't redraw the whole note. - Photos, link cards and thumbnails load in the background; photos resize quickly. - In very long notes, a keystroke reworks only the edited blocks and the note decodes at pauses: under 10 ms at 215,000 characters, from over 600 ms. Mac - Fixes for Start at Login with a hidden Dock icon. - The window buttons fade in when you point at the top bar. - The preview slides more smoothly. - Tab and Shift-Tab indent and outdent list items. - Fixed a blank block when swiping, typing flashes and the title bar line. - Note Info buttons are tidied. Apple Watch - Complications show the *TXT icon, even on tinted faces.

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    Seller
    CHRISTOPHER JOSEPH GILANI
    Size
    16.3 MB
    Category
    Productivity
    Compatibility
    Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
    • iPhone
      Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
    • iPad
      Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 26.0 or later.
    • Apple Vision
      Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
    • Apple Watch
      Requires watchOS 26.0 or later.
    Languages
    English
    Age Rating
    4+
    Copyright
    © 2026 Chris Gilani