It sure is nice to have the web look the way you want—without all the usual awkward font choices and other assorted distractions—isn’t it?
Over the past few weeks, we’ve explored a slew of interesting tools for taking total control of whatever you’re reading online:
- First, right here in these Cool Tools headquarters last week, my compadre and fellow Fast Company contributor Jared Newman showed you a series of simple sites for seeing minimalist, plain-text versions of sports, news, and weather online.
- Then, in my Android Intelligence newsletter soon after, I surfaced an awesome, out-of-sight feature in that arena for cleaning up and customizing the look of any text you’re ingesting via a simple system-level button press.
Today, I want to round out that collection of personal power-washers with one more worthwhile tool that can turn any website you’re looking at into a clutter-free, simply formatted plain-text document.
It transforms any article, menu, or other type of information into something delightfully easy to read, save, share, you name it—without any ads, images, or funky formatting of any sort.
It’s an incredibly handy resource to keep around, to say the least. And once you’ve got it in front of you, it couldn’t be much easier to use.
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10 seconds to plain text
The next time you find yourself facing a web page with way too much going on, remember a tool called Textise.
