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TXT File Maker Online

Create, open, edit, and download plain text files in a focused browser editor. Name your file, choose encoding and line endings, and keep a local recovery draft without signing up.

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How to Make a TXT File

1

Write or open

Type or paste text, pick a template, or open a .txt file.

2

Name and adjust

Set the filename, encoding and line endings.

3

Download

Save the .txt file to your device.

Built for Real Text Work

Large Plain Text Editor

A spacious, distraction-light writing surface for notes, lists, logs, code, prompts, and drafts.

Compatible TXT Downloads

Export UTF-8, UTF-8 with BOM, or UTF-16 LE files with LF or CRLF line endings.

Practical Editing Tools

Open local files, drag and drop, find and replace, insert tabs, copy text, and use focus mode.

Browser-Local Drafts

Your recovery draft stays in local browser storage so a refresh does not erase your work.

Which Encoding and Line Ending to Pick

Where the file goesEncodingLinesWhy
Scripts, config files, Git repositories, web serversUTF-8LFA shell script saved with CRLF fails with errors like $'\r': command not found, and a BOM before #! breaks the shebang line.
Notes shared between Windows, macOS, and LinuxUTF-8LF or CRLFCurrent Notepad, TextEdit, and code editors read both. Notepad before the Windows 10 October 2018 update shows an LF file as one long line.
Text you will open in ExcelUTF-8 + BOMCRLFWithout the BOM, Excel often assumes the Windows ANSI code page, so accented letters such as é show up as two garbled characters.
Files read by Windows PowerShell 5.1UTF-8 + BOMCRLFWindows PowerShell 5.1 reads BOM-less files as ANSI. PowerShell 7 defaults to UTF-8 and does not need the BOM.
Older Windows programs that ask for Unicode textUTF-16 LECRLFThis is what older Notepad versions called Unicode. ASCII text takes about twice as many bytes.
JSON, CSV, or text sent to an API or parserUTF-8LFMany parsers reject a leading BOM. In Node.js, JSON.parse throws on it.

If the text you are typing is really rows and columns for Excel, a CSV is usually the better file: convert the TXT to CSV and Excel opens it as columns without the import wizard.

The bytes counter in the status bar measures UTF-8 with the selected line ending. UTF-8 + BOM adds 3 bytes to that. UTF-16 LE uses 2 bytes for most characters plus a 2-byte BOM, so plain English text roughly doubles in size.

Filenames and File Size Limits

The filename box removes characters that Windows does not allow in filenames as you type: < > : " / \ | ? * and control characters. It also removes leading dots (so .env becomes env), trims trailing dots and spaces, and caps the name at 120 characters. The extension is always .txt; typing notes.txt does not produce notes.txt.txt, and an empty name downloads as untitled.txt. To get a .md, .csv, or .log file, rename it after downloading.

Windows reserved names such as CON, PRN, AUX, NUL, COM1 and LPT1 are not blocked, but Windows cannot save a file with those names, so avoid them. If a file with the same name is already in your Downloads folder, the browser usually adds a number such as notes (1).txt instead of replacing it.

Open and drag-and-drop accept files up to 20 MB. To read a larger log or export, use the Large Text File Viewer, or cut it into smaller parts with the TXT File Splitter and edit the part you need here.

How the Local Draft Works

  • The draft is written to your browser's local storage about half a second after you stop typing. It holds the text, the filename, the encoding, the line ending, and the word wrap and spell check settings.
  • There is one draft per browser. New and the templates ask before replacing it, but opening a file replaces the current text without asking, and the draft is overwritten moments later. Download first if you want to keep what is in the editor.
  • Two tabs with the tool open share the same draft; whichever tab saved last is what you get after a reload.
  • When the status shows Draft too large to save, the last version that fit is still stored, so a reload can bring back older text. Private or incognito windows discard the draft when they close.
  • Ctrl+S (Cmd+S on Mac) downloads the file, Ctrl+O opens one, and Ctrl+F opens Find and Replace. Find is case-insensitive and matches plain text, not regular expressions.

Create a TXT File with Code

When a script needs to produce the same file every time, set the encoding and line ending explicitly instead of relying on the operating system default. These examples write the three encodings the editor offers.

Pythonmake_txt.py
text = "Name\tCity\nZoë\tMünchen\n"

# UTF-8, LF: scripts, servers, Git
with open("notes.txt", "w", encoding="utf-8", newline="\n") as f:
    f.write(text)

# UTF-8 with BOM, CRLF: Excel, Windows PowerShell 5.1
with open("export.txt", "w", encoding="utf-8-sig", newline="\r\n") as f:
    f.write(text)

# UTF-16 LE with BOM, CRLF: legacy Windows "Unicode" text
with open("legacy.txt", "w", encoding="utf-16-le", newline="\r\n") as f:
    f.write("\ufeff" + text)
Node.jsmake-txt.js
const fs = require("fs");

const text = "Name\tCity\nZoë\tMünchen\n";
const crlf = text.replace(/\r?\n/g, "\r\n");

// UTF-8, LF
fs.writeFileSync("notes.txt", text, "utf8");

// UTF-8 with BOM, CRLF
fs.writeFileSync("export.txt", "\ufeff" + crlf, "utf8");

// UTF-16 LE with BOM, CRLF
fs.writeFileSync("legacy.txt", "\ufeff" + crlf, "utf16le");
Bash
# Report the encoding, BOM, and line endings of a file (macOS, Linux, Git Bash)
file export.txt
# export.txt: Unicode text, UTF-8 (with BOM) text, with CRLF line terminators

# Write a copy with CRLF converted to LF
tr -d '\r' < script.sh > script-lf.sh

Frequently Asked Questions

TXT File Maker Guide

How to Create a TXT File Online

A TXT file maker gives you a plain text editor in the browser and turns what you write into a standard .txt download. Type or paste your content, choose a useful filename, and select Download TXT. The file opens in Notepad, TextEdit, VS Code, mobile text editors, and most other applications without conversion.

When Plain Text Is the Right Format

Plain text is best when portability matters more than visual formatting. A TXT file stores characters and line breaks without fonts, colors, embedded images, or page layout. That makes it useful for notes, instructions, logs, code snippets, configuration values, prompts, transcripts, checklists, and data that another program will read.

Choose UTF-8, UTF-8 with BOM, or UTF-16

UTF-8 is the best default for modern websites, apps, code editors, and cross-platform sharing. UTF-8 with BOM can help older Windows software recognize Unicode text correctly. UTF-16 LE is useful when a legacy Windows application specifically expects it. If you are unsure, keep UTF-8 selected.

Choose LF or CRLF Line Endings

LF is standard on macOS, Linux, servers, and most developer tools. CRLF is the traditional Windows line ending. Modern text editors usually support both, so the default LF option is broadly compatible. Select CRLF when a Windows workflow or older program requires it.

TXT File Maker Best Practices

  • Use a descriptive filename instead of leaving it as untitled.
  • Keep UTF-8 selected unless the destination requires another encoding.
  • Use Find and Replace to clean repeated words or values before download.
  • Open an existing TXT file (up to 20 MB) when you need to make a quick browser edit.
  • Download a fresh copy after important changes even though the draft is saved locally.

Work with Other TXT Tools

After creating files, use the TXT merger to combine several documents or the TXT file splitter to divide a large document. You can also convert text into structured JSON, CSV, or XML when another system needs a defined data format.

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