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Kanban Reading Board

I think I finally may have found a great way for me to track my reading without the use of predatory platforms and cloud-based services; a plain text Kanban board dedicated to books and reading.

https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2026/03/07/kanban-reading-board/

#reading #writing #productivity #kanban #plaintext #indieweb #smallweb #books #bookstodon

Kanban Reading Board - ReadBeanIceCream

Robert Kingett 5d ago

The text editor a reader---and fan---is making for me, a fork, got another update. I contributed a small thing to the ReadMe. yayness! I couldn't find a text editor that was really for *me* so now this is coming along nicely! Next is export using Pandoc, for those that need Shun Manuscript format like I do, that's also being in the works. https://github.com/stefano-pogliani/AME #OpenSource #PlainText #Text #TextEditor #Writing #Publishing

GitHub - stefano-pogliani/AME: Accessible Markdown Editor

Accessible Markdown Editor. Contribute to stefano-pogliani/AME development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Robert Kingett Mar 3

I submitted some updates this morning but yay! A reader wanted to help me out by making a better text editor for me. In particular, one with project based autocorrections, so this way, if I am working on a Fantasy Romance, me typing, tk, won't bleed over into my journalism work by changing tk to "To be Continued." or similar. https://github.com/stefano-pogliani/AME #PlainText #OpenSource #TextEditor #Text #AmWriting

Marcello Anselmi Tamburini Feb 27

I just disovered https://numbr.dev/

Very useful #plaintext tool for drafting calculations those mean something!

Numbr

Numbr is a smart calculator combined with a notepad. You can use notes with numbers alongside each other.

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OCTADE Feb 25

@GopherPete@techhub.social
"For instance is there anything similar to RSS for gopher."
The best way is likely to write a bash script to construct an XML file with a page per channel.

'cURL' should be useful since it support gopher, although you will have to custom script it.

'Lynx' browser also handles gopher quite nicely and you should be able to use the -dump feature and parse what you want.

'sfeed' may also help: https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/resolute/man1/sfeed_gopher.1.html

gopherfeed: Convert RSS or Atom feeds to gophermap files.
https://github.com/lmaurits/gopherfeed

gopher_rss: quick rss news parser & headliner for gopher servers
https://soc.octade.net/octade/drafts

OFFPUNK
A command-line and offline-first smolnet browser/feed reader for Gemini, Gopher, Spartan and Web by Ploum.
https://sr.ht/~lioploum/offpunk/

Debian / Ubuntu APT Package Manager
$ apt search gopher
$ apt-get install gophernicus bombadillo lynx curl kristall pygopherd sfeed

profit!

Lynx is great for browsing gopher and nntp.

Kristall is a graphical browser with gopher support.

Gophie browser:
"Gophie is the Open Source Gopher browser for Windows, macOS, Linux and many more operating systems with Java support. Gophie allows you to navigate the Gopherspace, read text, watch images and download files with the integrated download manager. If you don’t like what you see, then Gophie is also fully customisable!"
https://gophie.org/

Gopher Parser
https://github.com/zenshinji/gopher-parser

mari's Gopher Repository
https://archives.somnolescent.net/web/mari_v3/gopher/

Structure of a Gopher Menu
https://archives.somnolescent.net/web/mari_v3/gopher/structure-of-a-menu/

How To Gopher
https://www.davebucklin.com/play/2018/03/31/how-to-gopher.html

Reading RSS feeds from wacky protocols with newsboat
https://brokenco.de/2020/07/07/newsboat-wacky-feeds.html

Don't forget the RFCs. Gopher has a well-documented standard.

#gopher #RSS #XML #RFC #feeds #smolweb #text #plaintext #ascii

Ubuntu Manpage: sfeed_gopher — format feed data to Gopher files

Robert Kingett Feb 24

Hey #Pandoc users, I am trying to convert my old docs Manuscripts to Markdown but every single time I convert doc or Docx to Markdown I keep getting character coding errors such as /‘ and things like can/‘t and I would like to know if there is a command that will clean almost all of that up? So I don’t have to always clean it up manually? @pandoc #Markdown #PlainText

Hyde 📷 🖋

Feb 23

#OverUnder 054 with Manuel Moreale!

You probably know his series of interviews: People and Blogs.

#Today, he shares his thoughts on #Emails, #plaintext, #SelfReflection, #EuroLeague, and #CremeBrulee.

He has also two weeks you need to check out !

He also replied to @mikehindleuk question

#pkm #bloggers #bookstodon #books #blog #fediverse #food #dessert #mastodon #sport #basketball

https://lazybea.rs/ovr-054

Over/Under #54 with Manuel Moreale

N-gated Hacker News Feb 22

🚀 Oh joy, yet another attempt to solve your chaotic #life with plain text files. Who knew that a "simple" table of contents could be so complex that you need a whole #community to #support it? 🙄 If only #organizing your life was as simple as cloning a #Git repo! 😂
https://orgmode.org/worg/ #plaintext #chaos #humor #HackerNews #ngated

Hello Worg, the Org-Mode Community!

Robert Kingett Feb 20

Trying out a new text editor. Really liking how screen reader friendly it is, but still, no autocorrect/text replacement support. Still, check this out. You can disable spell check, which I have done. https://github.com/Ambro86/Sonarpad #PlainText #OpenSource #TextEditor #Software

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