I like to use my iPod notes to hold recipes. This makes it easy to shop for things I need when I want to make something special. I try to use Text Edit, to pair it down as best I can, but even this leaves a crazy amount of useless garbage in the text that the iPod interperets. What mac program can I use to cut it down to just plain text?
Also, is there any plan to make notes a little more capable than just reading plain text?
Do you have the mac verision of notepad? Just copy and paste it there then copy and paste again
Mac Notepad is a proprietary software sold by kagi software. I will not pay for something that is so rudimentery.
You should be able to use any program that can save a file as “plain text” format. I use a small shareware program called TexEdit (trans-tex software) but it’s $15 shareware.
Search for Macintosh free text editor if you don’t want to use up your word processor for this task (of creating a simple text file). The first hit I found was this freeware program
http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/
You can use TextEdit. Just hit command-shift-T and it’ll switch from RTF to plain text and back.
Actually, Chronos. that is not quite what I wanted but it solves the problem. I was really hoping I could get Text Edit to display what was showing up on the iPod so I could cut out the garbage myself, but I can work with this solution.