Hello and welcome back to another episode of App Stories.

Today's show is brought to you by Claude and Steam Clock.

I'm John Voorhees and with me is Federico Vitechi. Hey, Federico.

Hello, John. How are you? I'm having a great day. I'm having a great day. I'm excited to talk

to you about something that we haven't talked about in quite some time. Well, this is a classic

returning App Stories episodes that is not a pick two episode. No.

But it's another classic.

We're going to talk about text editors.

The whole category.

The whole category. The whole thing.

I mean, I'm sure there's a list in our catalog of almost 500 episodes, which we are

approaching Big Mountain.

I'm pretty sure there's at least a couple, probably more, episodes about text editors.

But what's interesting about this and the reason why I immediately said yes when you came up with the idea is that this landscape has in many ways both stayed the same but also changed a lot.

And I mean, obviously, part of it is because of AI.

The other part, I think when you look specifically at Apple is sort of the convergence of iPad OS and MacOS.

There's been a lot of churn on the App Store, I think also, like many, many apps from years ago that just no longer exist or are no longer maintained.

So sadly, there's a lot of legacy software that we cannot talk about anymore.

And then there's also like another topic about like plain text and markdown and the role of these file formats in the modern era that make this topic very interesting, I think.

Yeah, I think it is.

And I think one of the areas that we'll talk about

is these kind of scratch pad apps that, you know, we're not going to talk, I think, just about

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