Plaintext World

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=== PLAINTEXT SEARCH ===

Duck Duck Go Lite
Marginalia
Goosh (command-line google)

=== PLAINTEXT NEWS ===

68k.news
National Public Radio (text-only)
Public Broadcasting Service (lite)
Cable News Network (lite)
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (lite)
Christian Science Monitor (text)
Upstract (lite news aggregator)

=== PLAINTEXT SPORTS ===

Plain-Text Sports
MLB | MLS | NBA | NFL | NHL
EPL | NWSL | WNBA

=== PLAINTEXT WEATHER ===

wttr.in [ help | 97330 ]

=== PLAINTEXT SOCIAL MEDIA ===

MetaFilter - Ask MetaFilter [me]
Teddit (text-based Reddit)
Pinboard [me]
Subreply
Coming soon? cohost


=== PLAINTEXT PRODUCTIVITY ===

Todo.txt
Plaintext Productivity System
Plaintext Personal Organizer
Plaintext Files for Productivity
"I Moved My Tasks to Plain Text"
Cal Newport (blog)
WorkingMemory.txt
Text File Time Blocking

=== PLAINTEXT NERDERY ===

Alterslash (Slashdot digest)
Hacker News
Lobsters

=== PLAINTEXT READERS ===

Earthly Tools text mode
Textise

=== PLAINTEXT REFERENCE ===

Wikipedia (mobile version)

=== PLAINTEXT COMMERCE ===

Craigslist

=== PLAINTEXT EMAIL ===

Using plaintext email
SquirrelMail

=== LO-FI BLOGS ===

Andy Matuschak
Daring Fireball
Gwern (Gwern Branwen)
Kaue's Way of Life (Kaue Silveira)
Kottke (Jason Kottke)
Low-Tech Magazine
Mimi Smartypants
Rosano
Sive.rs (Derek Sivers)
Waxy (Andy Baio)

=== LO-FI BLOGGING ===

Bear (blogging platform)
example blogs

=== OTHER LO-FI SITES ===

Plaintext Accounting
The Plain Text Project
Carbon Ads
Nearly Free Speech
HTML for Beginners
The Electric Typewriter (essays!)

=== IN PRAISE OF PLAINTEXT ===

Stolley: The lo-fi manifesto
Sivers: Write plaintext files
Travers: My world in textfiles
Bear: Defending plaintext blogs