Google App Engine

Grant    - Grant - April 26, 2008

This is amazing. Log in with your Google Account, and it's their. Pretty cool.

Update    -  Andrian - May 18, 2008

Updated to version 1.1: - ability to change background and foreground color - added small border on the edges of the editor - added ability to delete revisions - fixed IE issue with "Navigate away" confirmation

Suggestions    - Grant - May 19, 2008

I have a couple of suggestions. First, it would be very helpful if their was a full screen mode to minimize distractions that would hide the top bar. Second, it would be great if their was a "view as html" button that would load your file as an html document in your browser to make coding more efficient.

Hmmm... donuts!    - Tei - May 06, 2008

I really like that tool. Good Work!

Usefull    -  jorgensen.ian - May 22, 2008

I have been using a single text file for a while to store almost everything , now i have it online !! Thank you.

Change help for about    - Ian - June 03, 2008

Right now the link reads help (new version) , which makes me think that there is something wrong with the new version. It also insinuates that help is desirable when trying to operate the application. If this is so, which i find very unlikely considering the simplicity of it, help is not even provided. I therefore suggest you change the name from help to about.

Update 1.2    - Andrian - June 05, 2008

Updated to version 1.2: - full-screen mode (thanks, Grant); - ability to download a text file for every revision; - renamed 'Help' to 'About' (thanks, Ian)

This is one good application.    - Viru - June 06, 2008

Small and sweet application to keep your notes on one place and access it without that extra tags of colors and showoff things.

Nice clean application    -  steve.hupert - June 19, 2008

This is a nice clean application that does what it claims to do. None distracting simple place to create text files.

Nice clean application    -  steve.hupert - June 19, 2008

Sorry about previous typo - This is a nice clean application that does what it claims to do. Nothing distracting, a simple place to create text files.

I can't access the URL    -  johnnyxia - July 25, 2008

I can't access www.mytextfile.com . Is the server still available?

simplicity with usability    - happy - Aug. 08, 2008

Thank you, lord, for having mercy on my text-editor-obsessed soul. I already use google for everything, and I've tried tons of different apps for my ever-present "random stuff" notepad with no success. Regular text-editors don't save automatically, so I lost data constantly. I tried tomboy notes for a while, but I got distracted by the multiple note features and the fact that I had to have two windows open all the time. You have saved me.

Congratulations    -  jorgensen.ian - Aug. 08, 2008

Congratulations on making it to "Featured Application". I knew it would happen since the moment i first opened the app.

Beautiful    -  Shaun - Aug. 08, 2008

I love it. Please don't ruin it with too many extra features. However, it would be great if it would maintain tab indentation across lines - e.g. hitting tab, writing text, and pressing enter would give you a tabbed line

perfect!    -  dangerouschunky - Aug. 09, 2008

I have been waiting for something so simple like this. One text file for my on-going but always changing to do list. I am using it with white text.

igoogle option?    -  jackriggen - Aug. 07, 2008

Only thing that would make this better would be an option to incorporate into igoogle.

Love MyTextFile!    -  rhefner1 - Aug. 01, 2008

I used to use a text file (Todo.txt) for my todo lists, but now I can have them in the cloud and edit them anywhere! Love the simplicity! The only thing that I would want is the Ctrl-S keyboard shortcut for saving, which would save me some time. Love MyTextFile!

Excellent    -  hardboot - Aug. 15, 2008

Just what I was looking for! Doesn't need spell check because if you use Firefox, it has it built in.

Useful tool    - Dipak Shinde - Aug. 04, 2008

Thanks for the great n easy too...! Good work!! Cheers!

Great!    -  Davpe333 - Aug. 06, 2008

I used Google notebook, but it was too huge and complex to just write something. This is simple and easy, thanks!

Monks, Take Note    - Simon Goetz - Aug. 09, 2008

This is exactly what I want in an app. Do one simple thing, and do it very well. If I were any more elated I'd get MyTextFile tattooed on my penis in glow-in-the-dark kanji. This and WriteRoom make text editing into the simplistic blood sport I imagined it as when I was twelve years old, writing bad poetry and chewing on number-twos. Bra-vo. I've already written my obituary on it, just to finalize things.

Suggestions    -  steven.mckain - Aug. 08, 2008

Looks great, I use windows notepad quite a bit for notes with the speed and consistency across multiple computers and the only feature that I really would miss from it is pressing f5 for the date / time "12:04 PM 08/08/2008".

Suggestion    - dtyler21 - Aug. 08, 2008

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned, but if this was available with Google gears it would basically be my killer app... train rides and uploading text docs to Google docs would be a think of the past

nice and clean    -  antonio.varni - Aug. 12, 2008

great app

(nearly) Perfect    -  colin.davey - Aug. 13, 2008

Don't complicate it.. this is one of the most useful tools around as it is. When I go to close My Textfile, or go to settings or whatever, I get the "are you sure you want to navigate away... you have unsaved stuff" warning even though I have just saved. Just a bit of an irritation.

Well done.    - Adam Khan - Aug. 16, 2008

I love this program. By the way, on your front page where you describe your app, you have a typo in the first paragraph. It says: What is it? MyTextFile is ajax-powered online text editor for a single plain text file. You can use it to store notes, texts snippets or any other information. It should say, "text snippets." Or maybe, "texts, snippets."

Simple and does what it says it does... a rarity amongst software these days.    -  fillesy - Aug. 07, 2008

The ultimate online notepad... I love the simplicity of it. One clean sheet of paper that is with you wherever you are. As long as you are online... :)

Neat App    -  varun.naik - Aug. 08, 2008

Thank you for this great application. Please don't add any features, it's fine as it is.

Simple!    - jata - Aug. 09, 2008

Nice and clean interface - Excellent!

Notes.txt    - Matt - Aug. 08, 2008

Very slick, I'm trying it out to replace the "notes.txt" text file that seems to appear on the desktop of every computer I use for more than a half hour.

Coincidence    -  Ellimist - Aug. 08, 2008

Yesterday, I emailed myself a list I would have placed in a text file had I not been at work. This made me want a place online I could write notes on the fly and access them anywhere... Today, I saw this site on Lifehacker... Amazing coincidence. Please don't change anything, except maybe adding "CTRL-S." The only thing the site should do is keep text. No conversions, no colors, just keep it like notepad.exe. Thanks so much!

Multiple files and Speller    -  mllive - Aug. 09, 2008

A good application, 1) There needs to be some way to tie it into a multi file system. Just the capability to get a directory, read from the named file, or write to the named file. Just having a single file is too limiting for me, sorry. 2) I can't spell well enough so that I would find any editor very useful unless there was some spell check and suggestion avaiable.

Simplicity...    - Nick - Aug. 12, 2008

...is so cool sometimes. Great stuff.

suggestion:    -  swined - Aug. 21, 2008

show last saved time not as absolute time, but something like '13 minutes ago'

Awesomely Simple App...However...    -  markwilliamsjr - Aug. 22, 2008

I found out about this from a blog and immediately downloaded it. I loved it for the first couple days, but since then...the auto-save does not work, nor the save button. So really, there is no point to using it now. Is there anything I am doing wrong? If it helps, I leave the app open all day long. Does it automatically sign me out or something?

Print Function    - Kaleb - Aug. 28, 2008

I think that this App would be more beneficial with a print function. I know that I can press ctrl+p, but this adds the page header and everything else in addition to the text.

the fact is ... I use it ;-)    -  e70838 - Sept. 02, 2008

The full screen mode feature pleases me a lot but raises an issue: how do you leave full screen mode ?

Nice but one or two things missing.    -  object7 - Sept. 12, 2008

I rather like this. Similar to Darkcopy and Writer, but simpler and cleaner. I like the minimal but useful settings, and the maximal amount of room to write provided. Two wishes: -button for saving a local copy -button for reverting from fullscreen within fullscreen window itself. Overall, nice work and I'll definitely be back to use/see how development progresses.

Could you make this work in Google Chrome?    -  rulfzid - Sept. 12, 2008

Right now, typing text in the textarea in Chrome does absolutely nothing. Chrome support would be fantastic.

Update 1.4    -  Andrian - Sept. 20, 2008

I've just updated the app to version 1.4. Changes: - F5 or F6(alternative key for MSIE) inserts current date and time (thanks steven.mckain); - added 'Print' button (thanks Kaleb). rulfzid, current version of Google Chrome(0.2.149.30 as now) works nicely with MyTextFile.

bberry    -  steve.smoot - Sept. 17, 2008

Fyi-doesnt seem to work on the blackberry built in browser (apps login ok then main screen says a popup was made (wasn't) and the links don't work and text entered from desktop isn't there

テスト    -  pro.zerohour - Oct. 02, 2008

日本語表示

small, simple, and useful    -  jshlaf - Sept. 26, 2008

Very, very nice application, and very useful, too. Thanks!

Chrome works fine as long as there is existing text    - Mark - Oct. 03, 2008

There seems to be a remaining issue with Chrome when there is not existing text. To reproduce: try removing text (be sure that there is no remaining whitespace), save, navigate away from the page and then finally return: mtf_ta is selectable but there is no input cursor in the textarea. I wouldn't have noticed this if I had not been using Chrome from the beginning :). Neat tool!

Cool    -  xiaqui - Oct. 04, 2008

It tells me, Simple is the Best.

Google Gears support?    -  Gluek - Oct. 04, 2008

It'll be great to have Google Gears support, how do you think?

cool    -  Dan - Oct. 18, 2008

is this available as a Google gadget? that would be of great help. Dan

A very good Web Application    - Randy - Nov. 07, 2008

Thanks for a fantastic web application I use every day! The only thing I miss having is multiple tabs. I take notes on different problems or projects and adding multiple tabbed sessions of notepad would help me out tremendously!

nice minimalistic app    -  dreftymac - Oct. 25, 2008

good for quick easy access

ss    -  Mia1314 - Dec. 08, 2008

ss

Can not use in IE 8 BETA    -  chrvip - Dec. 12, 2008

In IE 8 BETA ,can not see the HyperLinks and Buttons in the right top corner.

KISS at it's best    - Doug - Dec. 20, 2008

I'm constantly copying, editing, and pasting code and other text from one web app to another (via tabs). With this editor I no longer have to switch over to a "real" text editor for such tasks. Plus the whole on-the-road thing (even if it's just another machine on my network). So simple, a great idea, they usually are. Thanks.

Cool    -  zawcon - Jan. 27, 2009

Good effort! Anyone seen Google Notebook? https://www.google.com/notebook

Among the best web-apps I've used.    -  jasim.ab - Jan. 25, 2009

Its quick, simple and clean. I've been using it to store everything from my personal info to todo lists. Just my private notebook in the public web. Superb!

Great app! Fixed margins, maybe?    -  chris.burgwald - Jan. 30, 2009

I've just lately begun using text editors as my primary program for writing, and I love MyTextFile! I changed the background to Black, the foreground to Lime, hit F11 on Firefox, and there you go... clutter-free, toolbar free typing! I do have one request though... any chance you could make it possible to fix the width of the workspace, a la Dark Room? For any largish monitor it gets to be a pretty wide area to read across.

Suggestion: delete option    -  ei.star - Jan. 31, 2009

really great app - love being to jot notes and create drafts anywhere! but could you please include an option to delete old revisions? it's for privacy reasons... i want to have the option to delete the notes instead of having google store my info forever, thanks

Great work    -  jpchipps - Feb. 16, 2009

Really nice interface for this really nice tool. Simple text I can view from anywhere.

Beautiful Simplicity    - Greg - Feb. 12, 2009

Great idea well implemented.

True cross-platform text editor    - jgmarcel - Feb. 25, 2009

This application is really great and I feel immensely grateful to its developer every time I make some good use of it. By the way, I would like to ask for his help with a minor problem that has been nagging at me for a while now --- my Revision History keeps showing two old empty revisions which I simply cannot delete (there is no "delete" button for 0 bytes versions). Any suggestions on how it could be fixed, please? :-)

This domain name expired on 2009-04-23.    -  benishouga - April 24, 2009

Where are you ? This domain name expired on 2009-04-23. This service is my favorite.

Yay! It's back!    -  peter - April 28, 2009

Great product! Totally great and simple functionality, better than any alternatives I'm aware of. Hopefully it doesn't go down again!

Help! Where are you?    -  tomaso.muir@googlemail.com - April 27, 2009

Yes, my favorite too! And it has disappeared in a puff of nothing! Along with some useful stuff I had saved! :-((( What's happened?

how did you do the string comparision    -  sirono - May 20, 2009

i'm impressed by this application, but what i find most interessting, is how do you see that something is deleted? i tested it extensivly, and it never misses a spot. i'm wondering if you would like to share this method...

Quotas    -  aforsgren - July 21, 2009

Nice but it's not reliable anymore as it runs out of Google App Engine quotas almost daily now for the last few weeks. Went back to docs for my daily todo lists.

Best thing ever since...BEST THING EVER!!    - Aziz Light - Sept. 17, 2009

This is the second version of this comment. The first version was too long to be published. And yet I can't possibly transcribe in words the quality of this application without being insultive. That's how good this app is. So all I'm going to do is say a billion thanks to the author ( a trillion seemed cheesy). Thanks a lot a billion times, and great job!

A suggestion    - Jo - Feb. 10, 2010

So, without sounding mindnumbingly oblivious to your goal of a lightweight app, would you consider allowing versions to be tagged or named something. It seems like a small fix, since they're already tagged with dates, but it would effectively allow for an infinite amount of notes/files. Then all you'd have to do is allow search, folders, collaborative editing... ok, ok... just names?

Text for the ultimate portability    -  hfrazer.nz - March 17, 2010

I have always expounded the virtues of text. Ultimately fast,Ultimately space concious,Ultimately portable. Text will survive generatns of OS's, DocTypes & propriety devices. Cut & paste means you can put it anywhere. I was almost sold on wiki's when my HDD died & I couldn't get my MySQL DB back -now Im back to textdocs. You can type in URL refs & use the Browsers "find" for more complex stuff. Keep It Simple Stupid! (I also use a hipster PDA which fits nicely with this when I print it.)

great app    - some1 - June 03, 2010

thank you for this app, exactly what i was looking for: minimal UI/features for the job, perfect.

suggestion    - anyone - June 03, 2010

as the text size is limited (256k), could you show the current size or some percentage on the page, that would be useful.

Nice app, but is it dead?    -  oratek - Aug. 29, 2010

No development in 2 years - a great idea that seems to have died.

This is useful    -  pranny - Sept. 03, 2010

I have stopped using gedit for storing temporary stuff. I always use mytextfile