![]() ![]() Regular expressions are hard to create, so TextSoap now has a built-in redirection link to a fully featured Regex building web page where you can actually see what you are doing.Īnother powerful addition is that you don’t need to create individual Find/Replace actions for each piece of data anymore. The cleaner editor has separate Actions and Cleaner lists, all of which are now colour-coded so you can find way around much quicker than before. For example, it used to have a text editing panel that was very basic while now it’s a full-blown text editing environment The whole thing still looks very familiar if you’ve ever used it before, but it’s more modern and better organised. It comes with over 100 “cleaners” already installed, but, more importantly to my case, it also comes with a re-designed cleaner creation tool. TextSoap 9.1 has a completely new and much more efficient interface than the previous versions. I really didn’t fancy doing that, so I opened TextSoap 9.1 and created a “text cleaner” which, as I’m sure you’ll agree, was not a cleaner at all, but a manipulator! Then I would have to go into each note and change that specific part of my code. What I had to do first was to export all those notes individually as Markdown files. The ‘Hex’, hyphen, digit thing was not obvious enough in the sea of text of each note and I wanted to change it to a bolded “’H’ dot digit”. ![]() In every note I have a code at the end of the text that starts with a UID that I automatically generate with Typinator, a simplified name in the form of “‘Hex’, hyphen, digit” and a date string. A couple of weeks ago, I was going through a 120-notes Bear app collection that lives under a single tag. Nowadays, with an explosion of data creation in the form of notes, daily notes, blog entries, etc., though, TextSoap can make a huge difference if you’re on the writing end. Most people rarely needed to “fix” regular text in one text file or across files, simply because we weren’t yet into daily journals or zettelkasten note taking. Whereas the previous versions I reviewed - I skipped versions 7 and 8 - were very useful if you understood Regular Expressions well and were a heavy user of text editors, or you were coding HTML, CSS or programming code. Its TextSoap 9.1 app I’m reviewing here is a godsend for everybody who even only occasionally needs to edit text in more than place. It’s incredible that Unmarked software still is a one-man show. Both have gone way beyond the functionality of their initial release. Calling version 9.x a text cleaner is like calling iZotope’s RX9 Advanced an audio repair utility. The tings you can do with it are still called “cleaning”, but perhaps we should really call this app a text manipulation app. TextSoap started out as a text “cleaning” app many, many moons ago. ![]()
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