Software that operates on files you own, in formats you can read. Plain text, locally accessible, nothing locked away. Work that outlasts the software you made it with.
General Text is a home for small, focused apps that all work on the same plain files. One account, one folder: every app you use adds to it, nothing locks you in, nothing leaves your machine, and any tool you like can read all of it. Anyone can build an app; everyone keeps their files.
The desktop app mirrors your workspaces to a real folder on your machine. Edit with your text editor, the terminal, a script, or the built-in apps. Changes sync across your devices and collaborators, and everything keeps working offline.
Install it once and it hosts every app. Prefer the browser? The web app gives you the same workspaces and the same apps. Both work on the same files.
Apps are small, finished works; each one edits a plain-text format. Install one and that version is yours forever, running locally even if its maker moves on. Anyone can build and publish one. Here's what we're starting with:
Structured writing. Outlines, drafts, and notes as plain Markdown.
Small-batch bookkeeping. Your ledger is a plain text file.
Ideas that aren't projects yet. Loose notes in open formats.
Contracts and agreements, versioned in plain text.
Plaintext genealogy. Lineage and kin, readable for generations.
Your events, annually recorded. Dates and holidays in plain text.
Timestamped entries now, structured sense later.
Quick utilities for income and debt. Financial clarity.
More on the way, and the gallery is open: build a plaintext app, push it, and it installs into any workspace.