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Simplify your batch text file management with text tidy: free and powerful

2 points by ogkai 2y ago

ogkai 2y ago
Hey HN, I'm excited to introduce Text Tidy, an app designed to help you quickly clean, edit, and batch process thousands of text files with ease. Whether you're dealing with messy datasets, managing training captions for AI models, or simply need to streamline your text editing workflow, Text Tidy has you covered. Key Features: Batch Processing: Edit thousands of files simultaneously, saving you countless hours. Flexible Editing Tools: Clean and format text files with a variety of powerful editing options. Data Privacy: None of your data is transferred to a server or an AI. All your information stays secure. User-Friendly Interface: Designed to be intuitive, so you can get started right away without a steep learning curve. Custom Script Generator: Describe your unique text processing needs, and Text Tidy generates a custom script to handle the task. You can also browse and use a range of custom scripts created by other users. Multi-Format Support: Supports 17 different formats, including TXT, JSON, MD, XML, HTML, and more. Why I Built This: As someone who often works with large datasets and AI training captions, I found existing tools to be either too complex or lacking the features I needed. Text Tidy was born out of the necessity to efficiently manage and clean text files, ensuring that the data is in the best possible shape for further use. Who Can Benefit: Data Scientists & AI Enthusiasts: Quickly prepare training data with clean, consistent text. Writers & Editors: Easily manage large collections of text documents. Anyone dealing with large volumes of text: Simplify and streamline your workflow. How It Works: Text Tidy allows you to upload your text files and apply a range of editing actions, such as find and replace, text formatting, and more. The standout feature is the custom script generator. By describing your specific text processing issue, Text Tidy can generate a custom script tailored to your needs. Additionally, you can explore and utilize custom scripts created by other users, expanding the app's functionality even further. Try It Out: Check out Text Tidy and see how it can make your text editing tasks faster and easier. I’d love to hear your feedback and any suggestions for improvements. Thank you for your time, and I hope Text Tidy proves to be as useful for you as it has been for me!
al_borland 2y ago
Nice work! I made something similar to this at work. At the time, I thought I was just helping 1 or 2 people who had trouble using a text editor to manipulate large amounts of text. I found out this was a much bigger problem than I thought. Of all the utilities I built, it was one of the most used. I would show up to product demos from other teams and they would use it to prepare text for their demo… live on the screen share, not before hand. If they weren’t actively using it, I would see it in their bookmark bar. It was getting thousands of hits per month, and has for years. I’m still shocked by it. I’ll have to keep your site in mind for myself, or if I notice people are struggling with text outside of my work context (they don’t like us using company data on open internet sites), as this is a fairly common problem I don’t often see talked about. Your site does quite a bit more than mine ever will. Mine is mainly to turn garbage input into a clean delimited list.
- ogkai 2y ago
  Thanks for your comments! It's my first app so I'm quite excited. I can understand to the surprise of discovering just how widespread the need for efficient text manipulation is. I look for hours for my needs too, couldn't find much for my use. Hoping that this solves most of the issues and looking forward to making it better for you and anybody who needs it.

2 points by ogkai 2y ago

Hey HN, I'm excited to introduce Text Tidy, an app designed to help you quickly clean, edit, and batch process thousands of text files with ease. Whether you're dealing with messy datasets, managing training captions for AI models, or simply need to streamline your text editing workflow, Text Tidy has you covered. Key Features: Batch Processing: Edit thousands of files simultaneously, saving you countless hours. Flexible Editing Tools: Clean and format text files with a variety of powerful editing options. Data Privacy: None of your data is transferred to a server or an AI. All your information stays secure. User-Friendly Interface: Designed to be intuitive, so you can get started right away without a steep learning curve. Custom Script Generator: Describe your unique text processing needs, and Text Tidy generates a custom script to handle the task. You can also browse and use a range of custom scripts created by other users. Multi-Format Support: Supports 17 different formats, including TXT, JSON, MD, XML, HTML, and more. Why I Built This: As someone who often works with large datasets and AI training captions, I found existing tools to be either too complex or lacking the features I needed. Text Tidy was born out of the necessity to efficiently manage and clean text files, ensuring that the data is in the best possible shape for further use. Who Can Benefit: Data Scientists & AI Enthusiasts: Quickly prepare training data with clean, consistent text. Writers & Editors: Easily manage large collections of text documents. Anyone dealing with large volumes of text: Simplify and streamline your workflow. How It Works: Text Tidy allows you to upload your text files and apply a range of editing actions, such as find and replace, text formatting, and more. The standout feature is the custom script generator. By describing your specific text processing issue, Text Tidy can generate a custom script tailored to your needs. Additionally, you can explore and utilize custom scripts created by other users, expanding the app's functionality even further. Try It Out: Check out Text Tidy and see how it can make your text editing tasks faster and easier. I’d love to hear your feedback and any suggestions for improvements. Thank you for your time, and I hope Text Tidy proves to be as useful for you as it has been for me!

al_borland 2y ago

Nice work! I made something similar to this at work. At the time, I thought I was just helping 1 or 2 people who had trouble using a text editor to manipulate large amounts of text. I found out this was a much bigger problem than I thought. Of all the utilities I built, it was one of the most used. I would show up to product demos from other teams and they would use it to prepare text for their demo… live on the screen share, not before hand. If they weren’t actively using it, I would see it in their bookmark bar. It was getting thousands of hits per month, and has for years. I’m still shocked by it. I’ll have to keep your site in mind for myself, or if I notice people are struggling with text outside of my work context (they don’t like us using company data on open internet sites), as this is a fairly common problem I don’t often see talked about. Your site does quite a bit more than mine ever will. Mine is mainly to turn garbage input into a clean delimited list.

ogkai 2y ago
Thanks for your comments! It's my first app so I'm quite excited. I can understand to the surprise of discovering just how widespread the need for efficient text manipulation is. I look for hours for my needs too, couldn't find much for my use. Hoping that this solves most of the issues and looking forward to making it better for you and anybody who needs it.