Ellane WinProduclivity·Feb 27Member-onlyPTPL 41: How a New Obsidian Vault Structure Is Helping Me Shape My NotesPLUS the benefits of laziness, a plain text accounting update, and a Medium to Substack warning — This week — The benefits of laziness Making productivity beautiful (henry-codes) Why you shouldn’t use Substack’s Medium importer How my new Obsidian vault structure is helping me shape my notes Plain text accounting update Productivity Inspiration The benefits of laziness Anne-Laure Le Cunff believes that while laziness isn’t a label most of us would want to…Plain Text4 min readPlain Text4 min read
Cloudmersive·Feb 16How to Convert HTML to Text using PHPPlain text content lives within the body of any HTML code snippet — and separating that text from its HTML casing takes more time and effort that we usually have. Thankfully, the below API performs this conversion instantaneously, removing all HTML formatting from text and returning that text as a…Plain Text1 min readPlain Text1 min read
Cloudmersive·Feb 16How to Convert Website URLs to Plain Text using PHPIt’s a pain to “CTRL + A” and “CTRL + C” text from a website for a variety of reasons — and it isn’t necessary to do so. With the code provided below, you can easily include a URL to Text conversion feature in your PHP application’s workflow. …Plain Text1 min readPlain Text1 min read
Cloudmersive·Feb 9How to Convert DOCX to TXT Text in PHPDespite DOCX’s widespread popularity, plain, unformatted text still has a much broader use-case than DOCX formatted text. Using the below API in your PHP application, you can easily convert incoming DOCX files to plain text (TXT) format and specify how whitespace should be handled in that conversion. …Plain Text1 min readPlain Text1 min read
Cloudmersive·Jan 10How to Convert a Website URL to Text in PythonAny given URL page is made up of HTML-formatted text (and various multimedia) elements. When we want to access/review ONLY the text contents on a given URL page, we need to strip away the HTML formatting to return a plain text string. With the free API solution provided below, you’ll…Plain Text2 min readPlain Text2 min read
Cloudmersive·Jan 10How to Trim Whitespace from Text in PythonBecause software programs treat whitespace in different ways, it’s important to have a means for quickly trimming whitespace from plain text data when the need arises. Thankfully, including the below API solution in your workflow will make that process easy. It’ll automatically trim trailing and leading whitespace from any text…Plain Text2 min readPlain Text2 min read
Cloudmersive·Jan 9How to Remove HTML from Text in PythonObviously, we only need HTML formatting for displaying content on a web browser page. So, when we want to review the plain text content of any HTML string by itself, we’re left with the burdensome task of removing HTML formatting within our application’s workflow. Thankfully, you can quickly and easily…Plain Text2 min readPlain Text2 min read
Jon Bell·Dec 26, 2022The Church of Plain TextEvery single one of my tech friends has come to the same conclusion, some quicker than others: if you write, you need to save your content in a way that can’t be locked into a proprietary format. So we spend time doing everything in Markdown, committing each file to version…Plain Text2 min readPlain Text2 min read
Cloudmersive·Dec 17, 2022How to Convert DOCX to Plain Text using Node.jsWhile DOCX is great for adding myriad fonts, themes, and other Microsoft formatting to text documents, plain text files provide an advantage for data extraction, printing, and any other activity where complex formatting becomes a hinderance. …Plain Text2 min readPlain Text2 min read
Cloudmersive·Dec 15, 2022How to Convert HTML Documents to Plain, Unformatted Text using Node.jsRemoving text from HTML code is a relatively simple task, but a costly one in terms of time. Thankfully, the below API will quickly strip text from HTML code in a single step and return a plain text string. Taking advantage of this API is easy — just follow steps…Plain Text2 min readPlain Text2 min read
