Please recommend a text editor app
Background: I store a ton of important stuff in plain text files in a subdirectory of my Dropbox directory. I routinely backup this directory using Git. This is how I move and sync information between multiple computers (Mac, Linux, and Windows) and my iPhone.
For a long time (at least a year), I have been using PlainText v1.7.7 on my iPhone 5 to edit text files in Dropbox. Unfortunately, the new versions of PlainText lack several crucial features, and I just bought an iPhone 6 Plus.
Features I Want:
Here Are About 100 Possible Apps:
List of like 100 apps.
That's a ton of possibilities. Please help me narrow it down. Are some of these really good? Really bad?
Thanks.
Background: I store a ton of important stuff in plain text files in a subdirectory of my Dropbox directory. I routinely backup this directory using Git. This is how I move and sync information between multiple computers (Mac, Linux, and Windows) and my iPhone.
For a long time (at least a year), I have been using PlainText v1.7.7 on my iPhone 5 to edit text files in Dropbox. Unfortunately, the new versions of PlainText lack several crucial features, and I just bought an iPhone 6 Plus.
Features I Want:
- Syncs with Dropbox
- Syncs with only a subdirectory of Dropbox, not the whole thing
- Ability to manually force a sync at any time
- Handles conflicts by creating a duplicate file, not by throwing away one set of changes without warning
Here Are About 100 Possible Apps:
List of like 100 apps.
That's a ton of possibilities. Please help me narrow it down. Are some of these really good? Really bad?
Thanks.
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