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Welcome to TextBundle.org!

The TextBundle file format aims to provide a more seamless user
experience when exchanging plain text files, like Markdown or
Fountain, between sandboxed applications.

Sandboxing is required for all apps available on the Mac and iOS app
store, in order to grant users a high level of data security.
Sandboxed apps are only permitted access to files explicitly provided
by the user - for example Markdown text files. When working with
different Markdown applications, sandboxing can cause inconveniences
for the user.

An example: Markdown files may contain references to external images.
When sending such a file from a Markdown editor to a previewer, users
will have to explicitly permit access to every single image file.

This is where TextBundle comes in. TextBundle brings convenience back
- by bundling the Markdown text and all referenced images into a
single file. Supporting applications can just exchange TextBundles
without asking for additional permissions. Beyond being a simple
container, TextBundle includes a standard to transfer additional
information - to open up new possibilites for future integration.

You can download a simple example file for a TextBundle file (Version
2) and its compressed variant TextPack. We provide also an example
for apps only supporting TextBundle file (Version 1).

Supporting Apps

                            OS    Reading    Writing      Standard
                         macOS,
[agenda]     Agenda      iOS,     14.0     14.0         v2
                         iPadOS
                         macOS,
[bear]       Bear        iOS,     1.0      1.0          v2
                         iPadOS
                         macOS,
[craft]      Craft       iOS,     1.0      1.0          v2
                         iPadOS,
                         web
                         macOS,   1.0      1.0 (iOS),
[deckset]    Deckset     iOS,     (iOS),   2.0.28       v2
                         iPadOS   2.0.28   (macOS)
                                  (macOS)
                                                        v2 (md, html,
                                                        Textile,
[ebookbinde] eBookBinder macOS    1.4.0    1.4.0        Wikitext,
                                                        BBCode,
                                                        Smark)
[fsnotes]    FSNotes     macOS    2.0      2.0          v2
[goedit]     Go Edit     iOS,     1.0      1.0          v2 (md, html)
                         iPadOS
[hashgazer]  #Gazer      macOS    1.0      1.0          v2
[highlights] Highlights  macOS    -        1.0          v1
                         macOS,            4.11 + 
                         iOS,              (macOS),
[ithoughts]  iThoughts   iPadOS,  -        2.3 +        v1
                         Windows           (Windows),
                                           2.7 + (iOS)
                         Linux,
[keepmark]   Keepmark    macOS,   1.7      1.7          v2 (Textpack)
                         Windows
[marked2]    Marked 2    macOS    2.3.4    2.5          v1
[markmyword] MarkMyWords macOS    1.10.0   1.10.0       v2
                         macOS,   2.5 +    2.5 + 
[mindnode]   MindNode    iOS,     (macOS), (macOS),     v2
                         iPadOS   4.5 +    4.5 + (iOS)
                                  (iOS)
[myary]      Myary       macOS    1.5.0    1.5.0        v2
[note-c]     Note-C      macOS    1.5.0    1.5.0        v2
[onejotter]  One Jotter  Android, 1.83     1.83         v2
                         Windows
[paper]      Paper       macOS    46       -            v2
[smartdown]  Smartdown   Windows  -        0.8.2        v2
             II
[taio]       Taio        macOS,   1.0      1.0          v2
                         iOS
[textbundle] Textbundle  macOS    1.0      1.0          v2
             Editor
                         macOS,
[ulysses]    Ulysses     iOS,     2.7      1.2.2        v2
                         iPadOS
[wordpress]  WordPress   iOS,     12.3     -            v2
                         iPadOS
                         macOS,
[xmind]      Xmind       iOS,     9.1.0    9.1.0        v2
                         iPadOS
                         macOS,
[zettlr]     Zettlr      Linux,   1.2.0    1.2.0        v2
                         Windows

TextBundle framework for macOS and iOS

Developers can easily incorporate TextBundle import and export with
the TextBundle library from Shiny Frog. See the GitHub repository for
details.

Quick Look on OS X

Properly formatted TextBundle files can be viewed with Quick Look on
OS X by installing Brett Terpstra's fork of the MultiMarkdown
QuickLook plugin. Be sure to run qlmanage -r in Terminal after
installing or upgrading the plugin.

Logo

You can download the official logo of TextBundle in various file
formats here. The logo was created by Brett Terpstra. It is published
under the CC0 license, so you can use it without restrictions.

Join us!

Like to join in with your app? Please drop us a line or write us on
twitter!

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A community site for the development of the TextBundle standard