As you (hopefully) recall, last Thursday I told you about Notepad++, a text program that was very lightweight and great for coding. I couldn’t really find a comparable program for the Mac, that is until I found Smultron.

Just like Notepad++, it’s a TextEdit replacment, but does a whole lot more. You can have multiple documents open and a viewer on the right pops up. But it’s more powerful feature is when it comes to coding. I mentioned how I used Notepad++ for working on the KNDS website. I took those same documents I worked on before and did some work with them in Smulton. I tried using a few other programs, but Smultron really made it easy to use.

And as mentioned, Smultron isn’t just limited to coding. Why pull up Word when you have to? Smultron allows you to quickly create simple text documents on the fly.

In short, if you are doing something simple, or something very advanced, Smultron is your answer on the Mac. Smultron is Mac OS X only, and free to use.

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