Why I Like Folding Text ======================= By George Mandis https://george.mand.is/2017/02/why-i-like-folding-text Tuesday, February 28th 2017 [Folding Text](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/foldingtext/id540003654?mt=12&at=1l3vtGD&ct=mandis-blog) is one of the most fun pieces of software I've played with in a long time. It's a clever take on the text editor, which is not something that happens often. It's a great app for taking notes, writing blog posts, outlining ideas, creating timers, managing to-do lists and more — and it keeps your data in plain-text. Being able to move my data freely like this is important to me, and so I'm often looking for software that allows me to store things in transferrable, non-proprietary formats like plain-text. My biggest complaint is that it's a little bit of a RAM hog because everything's built on a web view, but it's not too bad. I mostly use it to manage notes, keep lists during phone calls, organize content and run a [Pomodoro timer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique) on occasion. If you're a fan of [TaskPaper](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/taskpaper-plain-text-to-do-lists/id1090940630?mt=12&at=1l3vtGD&ct=mandis-blog) then you should definitely give Folding Text a try! And if you use [Atom](https://atom.io) you can install [Folding Text for Atom](https://github.com/FoldingText/foldingtext-for-atom) to try out most of the functionality.