Text File Formats
This is the introduction to the Text File Formats series. Content coming soon.
7 posts in this series
#13beginner
Plain Text (.txt)
The simplest file format on any computer — what it is, when to use it, and why it matters.
#14beginner
CSV (.csv)
Tabular data as text — bank exports, spreadsheets, and the simplest way to structure rows and columns.
#15beginner
Markdown (.md)
A lightweight way to format text that is readable as-is and renders beautifully everywhere.
#16intermediate
HTML (.html)
The language of the web — every website you visit is HTML, and it's just text with tags.
#17intermediate
JSON (.json)
Hierarchical data in a strict, universal format — the lingua franca of web APIs and configuration.
#18intermediate
XML (.xml)
The verbose markup language inside your .docx files — and why understanding it explains so much about document formats.
#19intermediate
YAML (.yaml)
A human-readable data format for configuration and structured information.