ODT and TXT explained
ODT is the OpenDocument text format, an ISO standard that works much like DOCX — a ZIP of XML — but developed openly rather than by a single vendor.
Plain text is characters and nothing else — no fonts, no sizes, no layout. It is the most durable digital format there is, readable by every computer built in the last fifty years.
- Where ODT files come from
- LibreOffice, OpenOffice and public-sector document policies.
- Where TXT is used
- Notes, logs, configuration files and code.