Guides

Practical, plain-English guides to working with text: how things work under the hood, and how to get the result you want on whichever app you are using. Each guide links to the free tool that does the job.

How to Strikethrough Text on Any App

The native method for Discord, WhatsApp, Slack, Reddit, Google Docs, Word, Excel and Notion, plus the Unicode workaround for Instagram, X and everywhere with no formatting at all.

Binary Code Explained: How to Read It by Hand

Bytes, place value and the ASCII table, taught with worked examples, so you can decode 01001000 01101001 yourself in about ten minutes.

ASCII, Unicode and UTF-8, Explained Simply

What each one actually is, why text sometimes turns into José, and how the copy-paste text styles on this site exploit the Unicode catalogue.