TextEdit
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“I use TextEdit to do basically all my temporary notes, meeting agendas, thoughts, and clear-thinking.”
Hannah Nicklin Interview, Writer, narrative designer, producer, cyclist · via Uses This 
“Every so often I'll write a script in TextEdit if I need to turn off the internet and just grind for a bit.”
Matt Lubchansky Interview, Cartoonist (Please Listen to Me) · via Uses This 
“For quick notes and rough drafts I rely on TextEdit because it is so simple and easy to use.”
Megan Prelinger Interview, Writer, historian, librarian, naturalist · via Uses This 
“Most of the time I simply use TextEdit for taking notes and drafting papers, proposals, and book chapters.”
Vili Lehdonvirta Interview, Economic sociologist · via Uses This 
“For writing I prefer the simplicity of TextEdit over more advanced word processors.”
Andrew Looney Interview, Game designer (Fluxx, Chrononauts, Loonacy) · via Uses This 
“I also constantly have TextEdit open on both laptops for eliminating formatting when copying/pasting.”
Lara Hogan Interview, Front-end developer, performance engineering manager (Etsy) · via Uses This 
“I use TextEdit to write all my lyrics.”
Jonathan Mann Interview, Musician (2000 Songs In 2000 Days) · via Uses This 
“To write lyrics, I honestly use TextEdit, or whatever is the most bare bones Notebook-esque style text editor.”
Adam WarRock Interview, Nerdy hip hop artist · via Uses This 
“I started using TextEdit not long ago to help with certain conversions, such as taking an RTF file with embedded links and exporting as not-too-horrible HTML, which I could then convert into Markdown.”
Glenn Fleishman Interview, Editor (The Magazine), podcaster (The New Disruptors) · via Uses This 
“TextEdit for first drafts and to do lists.”
Joanne McNeil Interview, Writer, editor · via Uses This 
“I also use TextEdit, primarily for note-taking on shows I'm reviewing and for writing blog entries offline.”
Sean T. Collins Interview, Writer (comics, Rolling Stone, BuzzFeed) · via Uses This 
“I make lots of TextEdit files throughout the day that I dump into a number of wikis, depending on their content.”
Amber Case Interview, Cyborg anthropologist, UX designer · via Uses This 
“I still use TextEdit to write myself notes instead of using something in the cloud.”
Robert Hodgin Interview, Code artist · via Uses This 
“I mostly use TextEdit as a word processor (it's just simple and easy (and "free")).”
Jessica Hische Interview, Letterer, graphic designer · via Uses This 
“For writing first drafts, I use TextEdit and have done so for the writing of two books.”
Michael Lopp Interview, Engineering manager, reposer · via Uses This 
“TextEdit is handy for stripping down text between applications, making txt files for .pdb (Palm OS) ebooks, and making quick notes.”
Violet Blue Interview, Writer, speaker, sex educator · via Uses This
